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Sally Page, author of 'The Keeper of Stories' - Hugely successful debut writer on detailed research, the 'book club' genre, and how old work helps the future

Writer's Routine

CHAPTER

How to Write a Book

Janice's story has to be a driver of the plot so you need to make it a good form what questions are you asking yourself about who Janice is how did she become fleshed out as a character enough for you to uncover things about her I think she evolved as the book went on. With this novel they changed very little they there were very few structural edits that's not the case with my second novel but with the first oneI would let her very lightly they really liked it as it was with just a few question marks and then obviously went straight we went to line edits  with my next book it had a lot more structural changes but you know ultimately it did make it

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