Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development
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