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Samuel wrote: "Jeremy wrote: "Writing routine. All writers have their own, the most famous being Fleming and Hemmingway (recently there was an article in publishers weekly about someone trying to follow the writing routines of famous writers and he said it sucked (perhaps it was the alcohol)
Can you describe what would be your own writing routine? "
I don't have one. In the research phase, I tend to read a lot in the day and search for things online late into the night. In the initial writing phase, I try to write every day, sometimes using a word-count as motivation. In the editing stage, edit every day if I can. But none of it's in stone. Sometimes the key is to get away from the desk and go for a walk or a swim or have a coffee or just stare into space for a bit. For me, writing a book is a cross between being disciplined enough to write that many words, and undisciplined enough to have the inspiration and creativity to do that. The friction between routine and no routine is what makes it work - but it's a lot easier said than done!
Which of Elmore Leonard's famous ten rules for writing do you disagree with the most, and why?
Tom wrote: "Which of Elmore Leonard's famous ten rules for writing do you disagree with the most, and why?"Hello, Tom and welcome - hope you're doing well! I'm going to cop out and say none as all his rules are excellent. I have fallen foul of them all, though, particularly the one about not using 'suddenly'.
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So, here's what I'm going to do now.
I'm going to leave this thread open for about 3 days so those who may be late or wish to ask a question can comment.
After that I'll shut things down and give 1 or 2 days for people who want to give me questions that they wanted to ask you but couldn't to send them via the goodreads mail thread (or maybe Jeremy you could find a way to activate your author page questions box ;)) Will simplify things somewhat. )
Anyhow, it's been a true honor and pleasure to have been able to interview you Jeremy. I wish you the very best in your upcoming and future writing endeavors, fiction, non fiction and journalism.
So for the rest of the group, the clock is ticking and like Jack Bauer may say, we're running out of time ;) to ask and interview Jeremy Duns ;) So get cracking.
Excellent. I didn't know I had an author page questions box, but will see if I can find and open it. And I'll check back here for the next few days and try to answer any further questions if they come. Thank you very much for having me, by the way!
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I would like to thank Jeremy Duns for participating in this author AMA interview. While I may have made the elementary mistake of not advertising in advance, I am pleased with the number of questions that were answered.
To those who may have been late and/or still seek to ask questions, Jeremy has kindly activated the author page question box on his author page. I advise you to go to there if you have any questions that you may have not been able to have answered.
That is all for now. Till the next interview. 1 down 3 to go.
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AUTHOR PAGE QUESTION THREAD FOR JEREMY DUNS IS ACCESSIBLE VIA THE LINK BELOW:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/2958...
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I don't have any real process for this. I try to get to the end of a first draft with as little editing as possible, because otherwise you can get hung up. But sometimes that happens despite my best intentions. After the first draft I just keep editing it until I'm happy. Apart from the obvious things like attention to typos and other errors, I watch for voice - the characters should sound distinct. Plot holes, of course. And that the novel feels like a coherent whole.