Trimming the Beast Down – Part 1

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Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on September 15, 2012 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] When I finished the second draft of If a Butterfly, about eleven weeks ago [early-summer 2012], it was 280,762 words and 1,093 double-spaced pages. After I returned from the 2012 WLT …

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Early Stages – Part 1

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No Plot? No Problem! Again Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on October 4, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] The newest (Revised, Updated, and Expanded) version of Chris Baty’s wonderful book, No Plot? No Problem! has just been published [in 2014]. And I’m in it …

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