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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
~ Chevy Stevens
Background
Business
Coming
Emotional
Experience
Much
Treat
Well
Writing
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Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
~ Chevy Stevens
About
Atmosphere
Day
Dog
Each
Each Day
Forest
Next
Often
Scene
Somehow
Thinking
Through
Walking
Way
Works
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For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.
~ Chevy Stevens
Blocked
Cards
Happened
Knowing
Never
Office
Organically
Out
Still
Then
Things
Wall
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
~ Chevy Stevens
Considered
Degree
Education
Get
Go
Hired
Mentor
Somebody
University
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I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
~ Chevy Stevens
Books
Break
Dark
Evenings
Happy
Happy Person
Light
Lot
Mindless
Only
Person
Read
Things
Try
TV
Up
Very
Watch
Working
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I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.
~ Chevy Stevens
Barn
Cleaning
Grow
Grow Up
How
Novels
Out
Reading
Romance
Supposed
Thriller
Up
Writer
You
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If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
~ Chevy Stevens
Become
Make
Need
Sacrifices
Want
Willing
Writer
You
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In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
~ Chevy Stevens
Age
Anywhere
Career
Day
Day And Age
Live
Really
Same
World
Write
You
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It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.
~ Chevy Stevens
Admire
Always
Authors
Book
Confidence
Each
Feedback
Feels
Get
Getting
Most
New
New Book
Other
Positive
Positive Feedback
Praise
Readers
Start
Struggle
Thing
Until
Who
Wonderful
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It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
~ Chevy Stevens
Big
Child
Easier
Every
Family
Having
Incentive
Income
Job
Just
Keep
Like
Morning
Much
Pretty
Rather
Read
Supports
Up
Wait
Wake
Wake Up
Working
Write
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Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.
~ Chevy Stevens
Degree
Depending
Event
Leaves
Mark
Pain
Person
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Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
~ Chevy Stevens
About
Appeal
Because
Been
Big
Books
Canada
Having
Issue
Know
Me
Never
Set
Some
States
Wanted
Worry
Write
Writers
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Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
~ Chevy Stevens
Beginning
Draft
First
Hand
Just
Lot
Still
Think
Unfortunately
Who
Write
Writers
You
Your
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When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
~ Chevy Stevens
Actually
Agent
Boring
Fiction
First
Had
Informed
Kept
Many
Me
Missing
More
Out
Parts
Realize
Started
Still
Taking
Then
Thought
Thriller
Women
Writing
Written
Years
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When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
~ Chevy Stevens
Also
Around
Cool
Couple
Day
Drafts
Few
Had
Happened
Having
Just
Key
Led
Lot
Many
Mentally
Mind
Missing
Months
One Day
Outline
Played
Plot
Plotting
Points
Some
Started
Still
Subsequent
Then
Twists
Which
Writing
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