I usually spend a month developing the idea into an outline. Two to three months to write the first draft. Another month or six weeks to revise.
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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.George Stephen
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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When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
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The downside is that you've outlined so thoroughly that the actual writing can be a bore, and that can come through in the writing.
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