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The one where Dan Padavona explains why failure IS sometimes an option.

Writers, Ink: Your backstage pass to the world's most prolific authors

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How to Create a New Genre and Reach a Growing Audience

Jay Parini: I think that where especially new authors get hung up is trying to come up with an original idea. He brought up Thomas Harris of any of you guys read Thomas's first book. Black Sunday. It's about a terrorist organization that hijacks a blimp and floats it over the Super Bowl with a bomb attached to it. So even back then, he took a step back and said, hey, I need to change something. That's when he came up with red dragon and then silence of the lambs after.

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