Sep. 10th, 2006

revena: Cartoon of thoughtful woman in armor with small text in background (Valmai - "The Shape of Him")
Inspired by the recent spate of “this is one good way to write a novel” posts I’ve been seeing all over the internets ([livejournal.com profile] seeksadventure has a very nice roundup of them here), and particularly the one that I helped [livejournal.com profile] kphoebe put together about our experience writing our first novel together (notice how I said first there? That’s because we’re three chapters into one of the sequels. Yeah), I thought it would be interesting (to me, at least, and perhaps to others!) and possibly even helpful to do a little “how I wrote my first novel” post of my own.

I’m finding it a little difficult to begin, though, because the process that eventually became my first novel was really convoluted. So what you’ll find under the cut is a little advice to people who want to write a first novel (some of which might be useful generally even to people who’ve already done that, or who have no interest in writing novels), and a lot of personal history that probably won’t help anyone but me, but may be entertaining anyway.

It turns out that this isn’t a post about how to write a novel. It’s a post about how I became a writer.
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