How to write a book in 30 days | Books | The Guardian

How to write a book in 30 days | Books | The Guardian

Six stages for your first draft.

Here is a selection from the Tweet stream from Tim Lott's live webchat on 26/10/2012:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/oct/24/live-webchat-time-lott-writing-advice … 

• Book publication has very little to do with networking. At the best, it can get you a reading from someone who matters. 
• I used to use index cards to organise characters/scenes, but now I log them in files on my computer... 
• ... for character, make a computer file and open a section for each of your characters, writing down their habits/verbal tics

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Poem: It is a golden morning

Today deserves a poem.

It's a golden morning
And light through leaves
Patches the road
With sun.

I'm going to the dump
With builders' bags 
Full of dead leaves and sticks
Pruned from the bushes in our garden.

Not by me, I hasten to add.
My wife does the pruning
And the gathering of leaves.
I do the dump.

It is a golden morning
And the rays of sunlight filtering through the leaves
Of the lime trees at Lovesgrove
Patch the road with sun.

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