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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
