"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."

Work, Ending

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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."

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"My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way."

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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."

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"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes."

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"I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work."

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"I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period."

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"I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing."

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