Today I'm going to talk a little bit about my process of writing. I've been writing fiction seriously since 2009, and the way I go about things now is totally different than how I got started. In the beginning, I didn't plot SQUAT. I sat down in front of the computer and the muse breath took me away. It was fun, letting my creativity loose and seeing where the story took me. When I sat down to write, I had no idea what kind of story would fly out of my fingers. It was an adventure. But then I finished something and decided I wanted to publish it. And therein lay the problem. My muse breath didn't care about structure. The story I'd made wasn't satisfying because I didn't understand the way the story was put together. Some people instinctively structure their stories well. They can pants their way through any book, no matter the length, and be totally fine with it. Those people are so not me. Back in 2011, I attended my very first writer's conference...
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