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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-02-20 08:32 am

How to write a novel

How to Write a Novel.

I am led to believe that this process also applies to PhDs

Via [tumblr.com profile] neil-gaiman, who got it from Nic Alderton, who also explains How to write a Great Novel

[identity profile] andrewhickey.livejournal.com 2012-02-21 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
5 - Writing the story down in about 3,000 words instead.

(Seriously, every single time I get a great plot idea, it turns into a short story. Even the longest piece of fiction I ever wrote, which was about 12,000 words long, felt unnecessarily padded.)