Genesis of If a Butterfly – Part 2

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Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on November 30, 2013 Decisions, Decisions In the previous post, I talked about how the idea for If a Butterfly originally formed. It was early-fall 2003, and I had been trying to develop a plot idea for NaNoWriMo, which was then about two months away. I had a …

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Genesis of If a Butterfly – Part 1

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Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on November 26, 2013 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] The Very Beginning If a Butterfly was the first novel I finished. ** I started it in November of 2003, and didn’t finish it until October of 2012. This doesn’t mean …

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