I Wrote a Book. Now What?

The art of writing a book is much more intense than the act of writing a book.

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I dedicated three months to writing my first (and so far, only) complete novel at the beginning of the year. What I thought would be so damn difficult turned out to be exciting and fun and enthusiastic. I was consumed with thoughts of what to include in the next pages, what to hold back — to keep the readers on the edges of their seats — in…