I once heard about an author who wrote a 500-page bestseller in spare time after 11 PM when the kids were in bed, all in about three months.
...by 10, I’ll be back at the keyboard and I’ll finish up this scene, or this blog post. Wishful thinking.
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Once upon a time, someone wrote a trilogy. Many believe it should have been left alone as a trilogy. But the author decided (or agreed) to write just one more book to kind of finish up the story and tie up all the loose ends.
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Okay, time to pull my head out. I must have read this small excerpt half a dozen times before it caught my eye. I’m sure an editor or agent would have read that, rolled his or her eyes and put the manuscript back into the S.A.S.E.
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We’ve been talking a lot lately about characters’ names in a young adult novel. This may seem trivial, but we’ve discussed this subject so many times...At one point, the discussion grew so burdensome we set a few ground rules for ourselves with respect to character names.
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We’ve hit a few obstacles, not because we can’t decide how something is going to happen, or even what is going to happen next. The obstacles have been logistical, like thinking of something really good, how this and that fit together, and then forgetting what we said by the time we got home.
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