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[whiteskwirl]

This video was posted on Jeffery Deaver's facebook page. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. The Burning Wire sounds awesome.


http://www.studionow.../c5aa0da168f18/

Edited by whiteskwirl, 04 June 2010 - 05:07 PM.

[OmarB]

Great video, the more I learn about this guy, the more I like him. He name checked Mickey Spillane early on and that's a good sign for me. Mickey's one of my favorite authors and I came to discover him through a recommendation by Ayn Rand (who is my favorite). He seems to share a lot in common both in philosophy and method to my favorites, including the super detailed outlines that I love hearing about so much.

[whiteskwirl]

Great video, the more I learn about this guy, the more I like him. He name checked Mickey Spillane early on and that's a good sign for me. Mickey's one of my favorite authors and I came to discover him through a recommendation by Ayn Rand (who is my favorite). He seems to share a lot in common both in philosophy and method to my favorites, including the super detailed outlines that I love hearing about so much.

He mentions his outlining process in this interview about Garden of Beasts from Amazon.com.

Here's the relevant excerpt from that interview:

I spend about eight months of the year it takes me to write a book working on the outline, though I have to say that Garden of Beasts took me two years to write, but the extra year was all research. So the outlining process was maybe seven to nine months and during that time that's my fulltime job with the book. Basically, it's eight months of coming up with the story and it starts with nothing more than a simple premise: hit man goes to Germany to kill Hitler's rearmament expert.

From there I start to flesh out the structure of the story. At the end of a week I'll probably have five pages and at the end of the month I probably have 20 pages and at the end of eight months, in the case of Garden of Beasts , it was a 180-page outline. This is bare bones. Every character was described. I have all the clues indicated. I know how they would pay out at the end and where he would find him. All the twists were revealed too but that doesn't happen overnight. It's quite a harrowing process to do the outline because you're juggling with so many things.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Also, here is an interesting video with Jeffery Deaver talking more about his writing process:



More about Jeffery Deaver's writing process:

http://www.writersdi...Deaver/?print=1

Edited by whiteskwirl, 04 June 2010 - 06:34 PM.

[OmarB]

Thanks for the info. I majored in Lit and Journalism so I love people's specific methods. I come from the Ayn Rand 'On Fiction Writing' school of heavy outlines, good plot/theme integration.

[Jeff007]

Great to see how much care he is going to be putting into Project X.