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Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.
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Depending
Event
Leaves
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If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
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Sacrifices
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In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
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Age World Day
Day And Age
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Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
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Draft
Unfortunately
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I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.
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Cleaning
Romance
Barn
Thriller
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For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.
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Blocked
Cards
Organically
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Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!
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Feedback
Groups
Writing
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Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
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Atmosphere
Damp
Each Day
Forest
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I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
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Break Up
Happy Person
Mindless
Evenings
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Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
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Canada
Me Never Know
Appeal
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For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.
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Character
Feelings
Writing
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It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.
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Feedback
Positive Feedback
Praise
Authors
New Book
Readers
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My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear who the major characters are, what they want, and what obstacles they face.
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Character
Long
Trying
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Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.
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Book
Character
Coping Mechanisms
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That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.
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Fall
People
Thinking
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It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
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Wake Up
Incentive
Supports
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When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
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Missing
Agent
Informed
Thriller
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When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
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Missing
Plot
Twists
Mentally
Drafts
Led
Outline
Subsequent
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I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.
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Book
Cutting
Writing
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