The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.
Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.
It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.