But Goodman felt propelled by an urge he can't quite name, even now.
I felt propelled forward for a change, plus I was totally bongo'd for a couple of years with the drink and the drugs.
He speaks of creating a cosmos of linked pieces: "Seeing it this way makes everything much easier: you don't feel propelled from one project to another, having to change the floppy disk each time".
So when Polina heard her name called, she rose from her chair and felt herself propelled to the stage as if by the cumulative force of her parents' dreams.
"Once More, with Feeling" propelled the story arc for season six by allowing characters to confess previously taboo issues to themselves and each other.
The trick for any writer is to absent yourself from the finished work; the plot should feel propelled by the characters rather than the writer.
I walk in thinking, "I have an incredible job to do, I have an amazing responsibility", so I just feel propelled every morning as I walk in the door.' She may take the world's TV into the digital age, she may be the reason we are watching Desperate Housewives on our mobile phones this year or next and she may be the reason that our computers replace our TV in our living rooms.
"I don't know," was an answer she gave to the questions: "Who were your musical influences?" "How did it feel to be propelled to stardom after the Mandela concert?" and "What would you regard as your political priorities at the moment?" Those questions that she does answer are exhaustively qualified.
The country was propelled to feel terrified by Iraqi possession of distribution of anthrax, and then came what many of us know as the famous invention, "weapons of mass destruction".
Carcetti is propelled to victory in the primary election.
