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Goodreads asked Decima Blake:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Decima Blake If you need to research anything for your novel, complete this before you start writing. I did this for "Hingston's Box" to check whether the concept was workable and if so, exactly what time period and geographical locations were appropriate. I visited all locations in the book to get a true feel for the settings and to take photographs to remind me of details I may otherwise have forgotten.

Plan out your novel so that you are confident where you are going with it. For "Hingston's Box" I wrote a couple of sentences for every chapter to plot the order of events.

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