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Does January Finally Finish Her Book? Beach Read Chapter X Explained

I’d had Saturday planned for three days, which freed me up to spend the morning working on the historical fiction book. It was slow-going content creation, not because I didn’t have ideas, but because it required such painstaking historical research to confirm that each scene was historically possible.‎‎I’d started working at eight and had managed […]

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Gus and January’s Interview Scene Explained: Beach Read Chapter Review

To But while he’s there, he starts moving up‎through the ranks really quickly, like waaaay past the woman he went there‎to save. And as he does, he starts seeing all this stuff, this proof, that the‎leader’s right. About everything. Eventually, the girl was going to get‎scared and try to back out, try to talk him

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Research & Romance: Investigative Date Night: The Research Interview That Sparks a Literary Rivalry


I’D READ SOMEWHERE that it took 10,000 hours to be an expert at something. Writing was different, too vague a “something” for 10,000 hours to add up to much. Maybe 10,000 hours of lying in an empty bathtub brainstorming added up to being an expert on brainstorming in an empty bathtub. Maybe 10,000 hours of

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