Lorena De La Cruz
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Fern Michaels:
How do you know when a story is finished and ready to publish? How do you know to stop revising and release it? Do you have a strategy for it? Superstition? Feeling? Timeline?
Fern Michaels
The story is finished when I have tied all the running threads together. I work with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. Each section has to have what it needs to get me to the next section. I do not have a strategy, a feeling, or a timeline. It's instinctive. If you need something more definitive, think in terms of 80,000 words if the story has a successful conclusion.
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