How to write a novel

[andrewducker]

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

Via neil-gaiman, who got it from Nic Alderton, who also explains How to write a Great Novel

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[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

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.)