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Luke Feistamel

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How do you outline your novels? What do you do before the first draft?

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If I ever think of a good concept, I'll usually really quickly, over the next few hours, think out the basic storyline. I'll write that…moreGood questions.
If I ever think of a good concept, I'll usually really quickly, over the next few hours, think out the basic storyline. I'll write that down, as a kind of outline, with just the basic points that are essential to the plot. Usually, I'll leave out any details, unless they are important. Then over the next few months, or years, I'll add more to it, if I think of something that fits. I usually have several of these going, so when I think of an idea I like, I can find which novel it would best fit into, and add it to the notes I've been building of that particular novel.
When I'm going to start a new novel, I usually look at which one I've been taking notes on that seems the most complete, or has the best concept. Though, for Glowbug I did not begin writing it for at least three years after I thought up the original concept, because I thought I wasn't a good enough writer to write it at first, and I knew it was the best concept I'd ever come up with. So there are things like that to take into consideration.
Then after choosing my next project, I'll read over all my notes, and try to refine them down into as simple an outline as I can, usually just in bullet points. I'll also try to flesh out the characters really well (though I already have come up with them by that point), and to make sure I have a good setting that is well defined and I can work around in it.
One thing I have realized over the years, is if you have a good premise, good setting, and good characters, the novel will basically write itself.(less)

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Who inspired you to write?

Luke Feistamel DFW and Dostoyevsky are probably the most inspiring to me. Thomas Mann, Maugham, PK Dick, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Frank Herbert have also definitely influ…moreDFW and Dostoyevsky are probably the most inspiring to me. Thomas Mann, Maugham, PK Dick, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Frank Herbert have also definitely influenced me. Good question.(less)

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	Amino: A Tale of Self-revenge 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Design of Fire

I just published my newest novel, The Design of Fire, on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FGX74WS/
It should be available soon in paperback for $9.00. I tried to make it as cheap as possible but the printing cost alone is $8.94. It's free on KU and for $3.00 for the kindle version if you don't have KU.
The story is about a Western man who goes to live in his wife's Sumatran village and he encoun Read more of this blog post »

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The Insulted and Humiliated

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

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“I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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