William Bundy

You know, it's just that whole idea is there.

Again, it's just kind of this, he just appeared in the story.

I remember, this is not, this is a lofty comparison.

I'm not, I'm certainly not comparing myself to this guy, but I remember Tolkien and you might, you might know this.

I'm sure you probably do.

He was describing when Strider appeared in Lord of the Rings and,

He just said that when he was writing the story, he just appeared.

He just kind of appeared out of nowhere.

And that is similar to me when... That often happens to me when I'm writing this stuff.

These things just sort of emerge of their own free will.

And I just sort of weave them in and just sort of let my imagination do as it's going to do with them.

And if it makes sense, then I just sort of build upon it.

It's a very organic process in that respect.

I've never been very good at... At least when it comes to short stories...

having a very set kind of, okay, it's going to begin like this and then go like this and then like this and have an outline for it.

I just tend to just riff on it essentially.

And oftentimes I get something very interesting from it, you know, and sometimes that riff can then lead to its own structure, which I can then build upon more and kind of think, okay, well, I can add this to it and then it starts to make sense.

Well, they could well be, I mean, if you were to look at it, I mean, again, I would have to give the same answer in terms of it just made sense of those writing the story to do with that.

Um, I think if I were to look at the story as kind of like a psychological reflection of myself, which I could potentially do, um, there's certainly been aspects of my own character, which have, how can I put it?

Um,