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Gayle Lynds
American
Author
About
Always
Book
Ignorance
Research
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
Gayle Lynds
You
Writing
Words
Remove
Become
Own
Research
Else
Back
Later
Guilty
Someone
Entirely
Color
Highlight
Feel
Sure
Block
Go
Mixed
Text
Paste
Get
Rewrite
Different
Want
Different Color
While
Plagiarism
Inadvertently
Your
Letting
Copied
Need
Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
Gayle Lynds
Ignorance
Destiny
Find
Also
Bliss
Personally
Ignorance Is Bliss
Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
Gayle Lynds
Work
Ignorance
Odds
Others
Solace
Our
Would
Risk
Only
Writers
Perhaps
Also
Up
Itself
Going
Stop
Where
Us
Gamble
Keep
Keep Going
If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.
Gayle Lynds
You
Ways
Wrong
Editor
Go
Lot
Hands
Different
Expert
Really
Different Ways
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
Gayle Lynds
You
Writing
Ending
Promise
Must
Thriller
Delivering
Reader
Your
Violence
Violent
The villain drives the plot.
Gayle Lynds
Plot
Drives
Villain
Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.
Gayle Lynds
Alive
About
Only
Thrillers
Excited
Look
Readers
Espionage
Again
Realistically
Them
I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?
Gayle Lynds
Always
Spy
Stories
Loved
Who
Resist
The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.
Gayle Lynds
Wisdom
Experience
Book
Research
About
Percent
Only
Tenth
His
Up
Closer
Common
Ends
Less
Even
Novelist
Her
For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
Gayle Lynds
Mom
Great
Law
Job
Husband
Few
Stay-At-Home
Stay-At-Home Mom
Eating
Small
Small Children
Had
Prospects
Baked
His
Decade
Office
Accustomed
Children
Boards
Sent
Cookies
Who
Sat
Sudden
Grown
Two
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Gayle Lynds
Book
Sometimes
Adding
Ruin
Mood
Writers
Wrong
Lighthearted
Moment
Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.
Gayle Lynds
You
Before
Research
Record
Online
Habit
Facts
Particularly
Verify
Go
Sources
Get
Them
Reputable
Your
Multiple
I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
Gayle Lynds
Book
Opportunity
Research
Other
Side
Must
Never
Written
Looked
Always
Caught
Up
Curiosity
Gets
Satisfy
Coin
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