The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it. ' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis. . . Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.