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>>20342635
He supposedly read the Japanese forums while writing Higurashi and adjusted the next chapter accordingly.

Not really the plot twists (those were all in Hinamizawa Bus Stop, including the parasytes and military stuff) or the way the "chessboard" of Hinamizawa functions, only the structure of each arc. Same with Umineko, where he rewrote EP3 after realizing that EP2 had confused people too much.

It must be really cool to design a huge maze of relationships like 1983 Hinamizawa, where fate is set up in such a way that SOME sort of tragedy is bound to happen. And be able to create completely different stories just by slightly altering the initial moves of Keiichi and a couple of other pieces. Everything else is a chain reaction that the author can easily follow without really thinking too much.

This must be what writers mean by "the story writes itself" or "the characters have a will of their own".