When we first began the process of brainstorming the book, we thought it would be cool to have the story take place sometime in the past, like decades ago. We considered the 1950s or 1960s even though none of us is a child of the '50s or '60s.
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Outline is essential
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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Progress update and changing direction
...we decided to change direction with respect to our main characters. We thought we had a good idea, but as the story developed, we all began to like different people. The bad-asses began to take a back seat to the nerds, geeks and punks. We actually started to pull for the underdogs.
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Organization and research
"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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