Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping...
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If you are not an author, you may have noticed that writers spend hours and years of their lives in the factories, the streets, and the cathedrals of their imagination. Being an author is dangerous. The writer must constantly overcome obstacles in order to get his or her work done correctly. There are characters who constantly need to be killed off so the writer can get on with the story.

There are scenes that must be rewritten in order to make them sound more real and thrilling. And, there are people in the writer’s life who will constantly tell him what he is doing wrong or how he should be doing it better.

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