We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams
I believe the first draft of a book _ even a long one _ should take no more than three months_Any longer and _ for me, at least _ the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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I believe the first draft of a book _ even a long one _ should take no more than three months_Any longer and _ for me, at least _ the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
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