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How I wrote 'The Sentinel'

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Oct 26, 2020
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Part 2: Pre-writing

After I found the Guardian article, 'How to Write a Novel in 30 Days', (which I talked about in an earlier blog post), I spent much more than 30 days actually working through the templates!

I estimate it took me nearly a year to work through the structure, character development, timeline of events, plot points and sequencing, let alone…

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