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WTB: We hope you didn't think this was going to be a short series
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WTB: We hope you didn't think this was going to be a short series

The bitter truth: this stuff takes a really long time and whatever you do first isn't going to be right.

I think I said it all in the subtitle, but I’ll say it again: Both Jennie and I are realizing that it’s always 2 steps forward one step back, and sometimes the other way around. That core question: what do you want to do here and why—is something you need to come back to again and again. It’s when you leave it too long that you find yourself far off the path, or with a lot of words that don’t do what you want, and it can happen at any point in the process.

Another thing we talked about in this episode was the importance of remembering this: Nadie sabe por dónde salta la liebre.

Dónde va a saltir, liebrieto? Which way will you jump, little bunny? Away, without hearing Jennie and I really get granular about these drafts? Or into the pot with us? (no, wait, we do not want to cook the bunny, sorry, metaphor gone awry). We’re going to be talking about writing these books for… a really long time—so now is the moment to jump in!

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