Eavesdrop And Write It Down

Every First Draft Is Perfect, Because All A First Draft Has To Do Is Exist.

I'm A Natural Novelist. I'm Interested In The Person And The Group, And How They Mesh. And One Of The Ways I Don't Want Them To Mesh Is For The Person To Be Subsumed Into The Group.

Eavesdrop And Write It Down From Memory - Gives You A Stronger Sense Of How People Talk And What Their Concerns Are. I Love To Eavesdrop!

Writing Novels Is An Essentially Amateur Activity.

Some People Do Wait Their Whole Lives For Something, And It's Only When That Thing Arrives That They Find Out That They've Been Waiting Rather Than Living.