"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."

Time, Work, Draft, First

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"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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Time

"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."

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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."

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"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."

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"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."

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"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."

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"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."

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"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."

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"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

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"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."

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