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Writing a Novel Is Not Starting With Nothing

I feel like looking at it you know there's this continuum between the plotters and panzers. James Patterson does as he has like each scene he has a paragraph describe but before he writes the book he has a outline that describes each scene and what's happening in that scene. I'm not going to argue with James Patterson and I'll confess that if I was tasked to write a novel I'd probably go closer to what he does than other people. What we experienced last week is that if you give yourself a little bit of freedom and you don't decide concretely straight away I'm definitely going to write a locked room mystery story. Nothing's going to stop me from doing that if you

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