For each book, the time is also broken up.
From George Stephen
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
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