Never Too Late on St. Simons!
A huge thank you to everyone who came out for yesterday’s Never Too Late Reinvention Workshop sponsored by The SSI Literary Guild and G.J. Ford Books. What a great, enthusiastic crowd! I loved meeting everyone and was totally inspired by your energy and questions and kind words. I hope you’ll come out and walk the beach some Saturday morning at the crack of dawn so we can continue the conversation!
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I made it through most of the questions everybody wrote on the index cards I passed out, but here’s one I didn’t get to:
“How many books did you write on paper before you transitioned to writing on a computer? Any surprising differences when you made the change?”
I’m working on my 20th book now, so I’m not sure I remember! I do remember writing my first book, which was published in 2000, in longhand on a yellow legal pad in my minivan and then transferring the pages to our family desktop computer (!) every morning before I went to work as a teacher. It was probably my third book that I wrote directly on my computer, because that’s when I’d stopped teaching and I was writing full time.
There’s always an adjustment with any big change, but writing on a computer is so much easier and efficient in so many ways! Editing, cutting and pasting, skimming through to check something, switching things around to see if it works better that way, all of it. So if you’re still doing first drafts longhand, I would suggest that you take a deep breath and make the jump. Your brain and your fingers will adjust before you know it!
Shine on!
xxxxxClaire
Claire Cook wrote her first novel in her minivan when she was 45. At 50, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the adaptation of her second novel, Must Love Dogs, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, which has become a 7-book series. Claire is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of 19 books as well as a sought-after reinvention speaker. Read excerpts and find out more at ClaireCook.com.
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