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		By: Graeme		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vicky, I too set myself a deadline, more to get the first draft down, since that is the perspiration part for me. I like to take my time over successive drafts - you can&#039;t rush the molding process. A deadline is ok, but we shouldn&#039;t panic or feel guilty if we don&#039;t meet it. (Yes I can hear the publishers screaming at me now!) I have enough deadlines at work, thank you. :)

Mark, very sage comments. I totally agree with everything you said. We need to rebel against the rat race pushing us to rush our entire lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vicky, I too set myself a deadline, more to get the first draft down, since that is the perspiration part for me. I like to take my time over successive drafts &#8211; you can&#8217;t rush the molding process. A deadline is ok, but we shouldn&#8217;t panic or feel guilty if we don&#8217;t meet it. (Yes I can hear the publishers screaming at me now!) I have enough deadlines at work, thank you. 🙂</p>
<p>Mark, very sage comments. I totally agree with everything you said. We need to rebel against the rat race pushing us to rush our entire lives.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writer, author, novelist; these words have different connotations to me, and speed is one of them.  In today&#039;s world of multitasking and on-demand everything, we forget how humanity survived save for the last 20 years.  Great art took care and thought, or perhaps I&#039;m dreaming of a time and place that never existed.

Regardless, in today&#039;s world high wordcount output equals success, but I won&#039;t subscribe to that equation.  For me, it takes time to create something of worth and if I tried to mimic those creating four outstanding works a year, it would result in disaster.  I suspect I&#039;m part of the norm in this regard.

And I hope others will deem my work as quality once it&#039;s polished and ready for show.  Good luck with yours, Graeme.  I don&#039;t see anything wrong with producing a quality book once a year, or every other year, or even ten for that matter.  Humans&#039; best stories, the ones that stand the test of time, took many years to create, after all!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Writer, author, novelist; these words have different connotations to me, and speed is one of them.  In today&#8217;s world of multitasking and on-demand everything, we forget how humanity survived save for the last 20 years.  Great art took care and thought, or perhaps I&#8217;m dreaming of a time and place that never existed.</p>
<p>Regardless, in today&#8217;s world high wordcount output equals success, but I won&#8217;t subscribe to that equation.  For me, it takes time to create something of worth and if I tried to mimic those creating four outstanding works a year, it would result in disaster.  I suspect I&#8217;m part of the norm in this regard.</p>
<p>And I hope others will deem my work as quality once it&#8217;s polished and ready for show.  Good luck with yours, Graeme.  I don&#8217;t see anything wrong with producing a quality book once a year, or every other year, or even ten for that matter.  Humans&#8217; best stories, the ones that stand the test of time, took many years to create, after all!</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[You pretty much hit the nail on the head! Everything you wrote is everything I have felt. Ten years on a novel felt like overkill but if I hadnt taken that self pub leap on the KDP my book would still be sat on my computer in a folder in the bottom right corner lol. I have set myself a deadline on my second book but think I left myself tight (its like you aimed this post at me lol) So i think I will be taking a leaf out of your book (not literally :p) and give myself more time to perfect my second book :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You pretty much hit the nail on the head! Everything you wrote is everything I have felt. Ten years on a novel felt like overkill but if I hadnt taken that self pub leap on the KDP my book would still be sat on my computer in a folder in the bottom right corner lol. I have set myself a deadline on my second book but think I left myself tight (its like you aimed this post at me lol) So i think I will be taking a leaf out of your book (not literally :p) and give myself more time to perfect my second book 🙂</p>
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