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* [[Hunter S. Thompson]] not only did this, he made it the essence of Gonzo journalism: Your notes, more or less unedited, ''are'' the finished product. He would frequently spend hours or days locked up in his room with a typewriter, a whole bunch of paper, and half a ton of drugs and booze, hammering away furiously to send a long, rambling, yet somehow incredibly cogent piece off to ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' or whatever other publication he was writing for at the time. He famously declared his most famous work, ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' ''not'' to be Gonzo, as he had edited it too much (although in fairness, he admits that his notes would have been literally unpublishable in their raw state).

* George R.R. Martin describes himself as a "gardener" writer as opposed to an "architect," who plans everything beforehand. He knows how ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' will end, but the road to getting there has largely been up in the air.

 

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