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The Making of a Novel: Week 5
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Author’s Note: This article was originally published on August 4th, 2022 as part of a blog series about a novel I was ghostwriting for a client without the use of AI (though I have since used AI to generate some of the images). If you haven’t read the introduction yet,…
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The Making of a Novel: Week 4
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What do you do when, in the midst of writing a book, you become inspired by an idea for a different story? What do you do if the new idea becomes so compelling, so exciting, that you simply can’t stop thinking about it?
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The Making of a Novel: Week 3
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As much weight as I give to the writing advice of Hemingway, however, this doesn’t have to be the experience of every writer. Dean Wesley Smith, for instance, an author with nearly two hundred published novels to his name, follows a one-draft method during which he cycles back and forth…