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Pride Special: The Joys of Writing Queer Love Stories

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

CHAPTER

How to Write a Novel

I'm not a writer who plots out her story because that doesn't work for me. There are the ones who plot everything out, and then there are the ones like me. They call them panzers or they fly by the city of France or discovery writing,. That's what I do. Of course, I mean, I have my characters, right? Because my books, they are very much character and conflict based. For French kissing, actually it's a bit more plotted because I had four main characters to start with. But since then, I haven't really plotted out all that much because it's not how I write.

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