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A Certain Luxury When You Get To Writing A Novel Is To Have The Space To Have Your Characters Just Banter.

With The Movies, People Are Not Going To Wait Around. The Deadline Is A Deadline. In Publishing It's More A Polite Suggestion.

Talent Must Be A Fanatical Mistress. She's Beautiful; When You're With Her, People Watch You, They Notice. But She Bangs On Your Door At Odd Hours, And She Disappears For Long Stretches, And She Has No Patience For The Rest Of Your Existence; Your Wife, Your Children, Your Friends. She Is The Most Thrilling Evening Of Your Week, But Some Day She Will Leave You For Good. One Night, After She's Been Gone For Years, You Will See Her On The Arm Of A Younger Man, And She Will Pretend Not To Recognize You.

It Is Actually A Lot Harder To Sit Down And Write From A To Z. But For Me At Least, It's The Only Way I Can Do It, At This Point, With Any Moderate Success.

I Was A Huge Fantasy Geek Growing Up. I Was The Dungeon Master In My D&d Game.