I've been cooking right along on Frankenstein's Notebook. Hit 25K-words over the weekend. But I lost a couple of thousand as I fixed story problems. Two steps forward, one step back.
Man, novels take a long fucking time to write. I'm spoiled by scripts. The first draft of a script usually takes me 6-8 weeks. I've been banging at this novel since December, and I'm still only a quarter of the way through. Not a complaint, as much a statement of fact.
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Yeah. No fucking kidding. Now if only the rest of the world would understand...
True dat. Most people have this mental image of a writing montage in which, after a few minutes of typing, laughing, drinking red wine and biting on pencils, a novel is thus born. It's tough to bang away for a couple of hours, look back and realize you've only covered a single story beat. Long road, man...
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