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On Eating Elephants

Posted By Philip Palmer On 28th November 2007 @ 23:18 In Miscellaneous, Novel Writing, Science Fiction | 1 Comment

There's a great piece by [1] Karen Miller in the Book Swede's pages about how to write really hard, big novels...it resonates for me powerfully, after spending this year on a complex world-building SF novel (Ketos).

The bit of Karen's piece that fails for me though is her analogy with how you make a triple layer Black Forest gateau. Her theory is that it goes in the oven looking like a mess, and emerges looking magnificent. Trust me - not when I make cake! It always comes out far far worse than it goes in.

Tags: [2] Karen Miller, [3] the book swede

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[1] Karen Miller: http://thebookswede.blogspot.com/2007/11/quote-of-week-4-karen-miller.html
[2] Karen Miller: http://www.philippalmer.net/tags/karen-miller/
[3] the book swede: http://www.philippalmer.net/tags/the-book-swede/

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