Brittany Quarters
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Shannon Messenger:
Was Keeper of the lost cities the very first book you wrote? Or did you write others that you never published? *Team Keefe!*
Shannon Messenger
KEEPER is the first book I wrote--but before that goes making "getting published" sound too easy, you should know that the published version of KEEPER is draft 20. So I wrote it 19 other times that weren't good enough.
And before that I studied screenwriting, so I have a number of terrible screenplays and tv scripts gathering dust on my shelves.
Writing takes practice, so pretty much every author you'll talk to has looooooooooooooots of things they wrote that weren't good enough to see the light of day, but were what had to be written to get better.
And before that I studied screenwriting, so I have a number of terrible screenplays and tv scripts gathering dust on my shelves.
Writing takes practice, so pretty much every author you'll talk to has looooooooooooooots of things they wrote that weren't good enough to see the light of day, but were what had to be written to get better.
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Rachel Dolphin
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Shannon Messenger:
Hi! I'm Rachel Dolphin. I love ur keeper of the lost cities books. I was just wondering, since I'm a huge feminist, that there r a few things in there that r a tiny bit sexist. Did u rite them because u just didn't realize that they were sexist, u didn't care, or did u think it was important for the story and the time or place it was taking place? Or some other reason that I didn't just write?
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