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Hi again,

I definitely spend more time on the writing phase. The planning now is usually in a version of personal shorthand that only I can decipher. Any story outline would be incomprehensible to anyone else.

When I was 12, I wrote nothing down. My Mom took all the notes, and even took dictation and did the typing on a genuine typewriter. A university English major, she was also there to tell me when my words were not quite grammatical, which wasn’t too often. But it was nice to be already edited once before handing in my work to an editor.

As you can see, I had it good. I was kind of spoiled rotten.                                                                       –G–