George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
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I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
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I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
finished stories
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
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I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
authors disparate influenced
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
time
For each book, the time is also broken up.
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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
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When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
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During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.
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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
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I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda.