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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The outline is like a road map. We knew where we started, of course, and we knew pretty much where we want the story to go. Our problem came from not having a road map to show us how to get from here to there.
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I thought of the Roadies at concerts we've attended. Now those guys are Organized with a capital "O". I watched them recently as they switched equipment between bands; every person had tasks and every person performed their tasks accurately and deliberately. Each person stayed out of the way of the others. Change time between...
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"John grabbed a bunch of those little ring thingies, some pulleys, a few snapping whatchagoodies and put them in the bag."
We're finding organization is important. We need to have certain information at our fingertips. I don't want to visit Wikipedia or Google or Encarta every time a character does something I've never done. I'd...
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