From an interview with George Saunders in the Paris Review about his new book, Tenth of December:
So much of that process [ of writing] is intuitive. Just deciding minute-by-minute, over and over again, over the period during which you’re writing the story. Sort of like seasoning to taste or something like that. I think that’s one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process … the quality of the split-second decisions you made…I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration.