Does Iain Banks write to an outline?
A. Yes. “Making it up as you go along doesn’t work for me, I like to know what I’m doing. You allow yourself some leeway and sometimes thing go off in an unexpected direction. Having said that ‘The Business’ didn’t quite work that way and turned out the most different to all of my works… it did have an outline, but it was more honored in the departure than the execution of it. It turned out fine and it actually looked like it was all totally planned. Which was probably more luck than anything else. It was a slightly unsettling experience.
