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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
