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The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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I Don't Write to a Production Schedule for My Fiction

I don't write to a production schedule for my fiction. I move the folders up and down depending on how I'm feeling about what I might write next. At some point I settle on the story I need to write. That decision is driven by an urging from the muse or something external that triggers the choice, like a research trip where a story piece clicks into place. For example, when writing a scene set in Cologne Cathedral for Tomb of Relics, I had the Cathedral Interactive site open so I could write as if I was actually there.

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