Book writing as told by Philip Donlay
I'm an index card junkie. I go through hundreds of these while I'm plotting / outlining. Sometimes I'm clever enough to number them, typically I don't. It's stacks and stacks of chaos.
Then it's seemingly endless research to make sure all the stuff I dreamed up actually works. I love this part.
Then I type anywhere from 125,000 to 135,000 words. During the editing process the manuscript gets whittled down to 96,000 words. I wish I were good enough to type the correct 96,000 words the first time--but I'm not, and I never will be.
The real magic comes when my publisher takes my mess, and turns it into this. Thanks Oceanview!
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