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Mark Pawlosky, author of 'Hack' - Journalist talks using experience for thrillers, why good writing is re-writing, and keeping a style guide handy
Writer's Routine
How Do You Write a Novel?
I grew up in a rural area in northern Michigan. And so the opening hack or these two guys driving back after they set this explosive off, also stuck with me. These events in my life as a reporter have woven themselves into the stories that I'm writing. So you had that as your starting point. How much did you know about the entire journey of the novel when you sat down initially to start typing at that first sentence?How much of the whole thing was clear? On the first couple of novels, I outlined them pretty thoroughly. With hack, I don't know that I had the ending. But I had waypoints that I knew that I wanted to hit on.
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