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Day 6
Today, on our day of parting, we talked a little bit about goals. Not personal, life goals, but the goals that we, as authors, should set for each book. I confess to some confusion when Dave Farland first mentioned this. Duh, goals include: write novel, get an agent, get money, publish novel, rinse . .
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Today Dave Farland talked to us about publishing our first book. This guy doesn’t think small. Dave Farland encouraged us today to go big. Don’t sell your first novel to a small publisher just because you’re so excited to be published that you can’t wait a few months for one more round on the manuscript.
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This morning Dave Farland told us some great stories about his experiences (all of them horrible) in Hollywood. Either he has the worst luck ever, or he spun a tale so well that we all bought it. I mean really, who can put the Chinese government, Russians, the Italian Mob, the CIA, an author and
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Tonight’s writing exercise was this: Go through your first chapter, and write internal dialog for your character. This internal dialog should give us glimpses into what your viewpoint character thinks and feels. As you do this, try to have fun with it. Consider ways that the internal dialog might create a sense of duality in
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