Darcie Gudger asks: How do you come up with your twisty plots and keep them all straight?

I don’t keep them straight. It takes a lot of deliberate thought. It is really a discipline. You just have to really, really think, think, think, and just slowly wear out your brain cells. I used to use Dramatica Pro quite a bit. But now I just write. I plot out my entire book on a few pages, and then I write. I trust my instincts more than I used to. I used to go into a tremendous amount of detail, preparing a 40 page document before I even began. That’s the way Frank Peretti writes. When we wrote House together, I wrote the whole first draft completely and he came back and rewrote a big chunk of it. But it took him six weeks to plot it. He had like 50 pages of notes! (Laughs) I wrote the whole rough draft for House in 30 days! It’s just a different way of approaching it.

You know, Blink is coming out as a movie, too, and I’m rewriting the book for the movie. It will be truly different from the original.

HE IS REWRITING BLINK??!!!!  That was a really good book!! It definitely does NOT need to be rewritten! If he messes this book up while turning it into a movie, I WILL BE TOTALY MAD!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.  WHAT DOES HE MEAN IT WILL BE TRULY DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL??  HE CANT DO THAT TO ME!! (well, I guess he can, seeing how he's done it already)  But seriously, that book does not need to be rewritten.  If he messes it up, I am totaly going to write to him and tell him so.

Ok, if  you want to read the rest of the interview, you can see it at the link below, because he also is saying there that he is making a lot of changes in house and that he is going to have trouble keeping the rating to PG-13 and I quote Ted here- House makes Thr3e look like a bedtime story.  If you haven't seen thr3e, it was a scary movie... Now I'm probably not going to be able to watch it now... So anyway, here is that link.

http://www.titletrakk.com/ted_dekker_interview.html