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first you have to hook the reader. They won’t care what happens to your characters if they know nothing about them. Conversely, if your characters aren’t in the middle of doing something when the reader meets them, the reader may not stick around long enough to make an emotional investment. “When” and “where” should be revealed in tiny doses while the characters are engaged in the business of the plot.
The Internet is particularly sneaky because you feel like you’re working when you’re online. You are not working—even if, like me, a small part of your business comes through the Internet. You’re not doing your core business. I have a number of writing friends who refuse to remove the Internet from their computer. Those friends get very little done. All of them have spouses who work, and so the writer doesn’t have to bring in a lot of money. All of them frown at me when I suggest removing the Internet from their writing computer.
I sometimes say that good writing inspires me to write and bad writing provokes me to write.
There’s only one surefire way to write a bestseller, and that’s to be famous before you write it.
