Check out the diagram in this article – How Long to Write Famous Books Take a look at the shortest time (2.5 days for The Boy In The Striped Pajamas), and the longest time (16 years for Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings), and all those other books in between. Wow. If you are a writer…
Chapter Four I got to choose our first ‘Third Thursday’ meeting place, so I picked Mom’s favorite restaurant. The Smokehouse, across the street from Warner Studios in Burbank, appeals more to the older crowd, but the food is excellent. Especially the warm toasted cheese bread! Yum. I got there a few minutes late, as…
Chapter Three The door alert bell sounded thirty minutes later, and in walked one of the most handsome men I’ve seen. Medium height and build, thick sandy brown hair, crinkly laugh lines around gray blue eyes, and a ‘It’s so wonderful to see you’ smile that made me gasp with pleasure. “Hi,” I…
EVANGELINE, Cont’d Chapter Two “Knock, knock.” “Good morning, Christian,” I said to my part time employee, neighbor and best friend, as we stood in front of “E.T.C. Photography” on Monday morning. “Happy ‘Day after Easter’.” “Thanks, Van, you too.” “Here, can you hold these?” I handed him my lunch bag…
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