I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

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Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

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