Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.Lynn Abbey
I'm always trolling for trivia.
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
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I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
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