followed until I didn't, so basically every time it felt like the characters
wanted to move the story in a different direction, I would just follow them there.
And what I found is, for me, a lot of the most important moments in the book
happened when I kind of gave the reigns to my characters,
and let them take the story in a different direction than I had originally planned.
So I've learned to just go with it.
That is not the case for every author.
There are some authors who do a lot better with the structure of a really good
outline.
There is some authors who can't outline at all.
I'm like kind of in the middle.
Writing the scripts but in some ways is kind of a charm experience and
then writing the second book, I feel like maybe I have been paying
my dues a little bit because I have written seven versions of it so far.
I'm currently revising my seventh draft and
most of the previous drafts have been rewrites.
It has been a really long road.
Once again I outlined loosely and
I did try to follow my characters wherever they took me.
It has been a long and frustrating process with this one.
I think we're finally getting close some books,
I think just come together more quickly than others and so
one of the things that I've been working on is
just trying to be okay with the fact that the process my change from book to book.
And I think that's the most important thing that I would want you to remember
while you're working is that, every author's process and
learning is going to be a little bit different.
And that's okay but also every book that you work on may feel a little
bit different from other books that you've worked on in the past.
And that's cool.
