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Reese Witherspoon Writing First Novel With Mystery Author Harlan Coben

Do you love watching all of those international best-selling Harlan Coben books come to life as mini-series on Netflix? Oh they're so much fun, easily bingeable in one weekend. There are eight ...
The New York Times

I Tried to Avoid Administrative Work. Writing a Novel Was a Poor Way to Do So.

Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it. By Klara Feenstra When I first started writing my silly little novel, it was a desperate attempt to escape the demands ...
Business Insider

After getting laid off, I used my free time to write my first novel. It helped me figure out what I wanted from my next job.

Last year, I was laid off, and I suddenly found myself with a lot of free time. I decided to do something I've always wanted to do. I started writing a novel. In the process, I learned a lot about ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Author spent many years writing first book

Vickie Keys-Lydic, who will autograph copies of her novel, ``Remember the Shadows,'' Saturday at Barnes & Noble in Davenport, spent more than a dozen years writing it and did 11 rewrites before the ...
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COLUMN: THE FIRST NOVEL — I

There are many ways to go about writing one’s first novel, and here I would like to share how I went about writing mine. When I started writing it, I had likely read over a thousand novels in both ...