very true and very possible, Marie... because sitting here at noon on a Monday, knowing I had set the "date" for the completion of this story at Friday... I have literally no clue as to what is going to happen, or what is happening, in Jeremy's mind, or in the minds of the other characters, until they "speak." And going back and reading about Ennis's confusion as he sat at Ellery's kitchen table, unable to clear his mind as long as he stayed there, I remember that I had no idea, then, what Ennis would do... or whether he would return to Laramie then.
You might call it a "method" approach to writing. I can't tell these boys what to do, and if I try, I end up going back and writing it THEIR way... otherwise, it just wouldn't be right.