Agatha ChristieThe best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. I was never very good at things like writing, so I never had time to really plan out my book. But, as I was washing the dishes one day, I realized there were many different aspects of writing a book that I could consider. For example, if I wanted to write a book about a woman who survived a plane crash, what would be the best time to write that story? How would I go about telling that story? What would be the best way to tell it? If people really want to read a book about a plane crash survivor, how do they find those books? What about an orphan who becomes a hero? Or a cowboy who becomes a world-famous stuntman? These are all stories that could be told in my lifetime and they all have to do with surviving something. Now that I have considered those questions, I can write the story of any type of person because it will fit into the “surviving something” category.
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