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" Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. "

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" So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. "

" The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. "

" For each book, the time is also broken up. "

" Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. "

" Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. "

" I've been reading horror since I was five years old. "

" On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. "

" A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home. "

" In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. "

" When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. "

" Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural. "

" 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. "

" So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. "

" For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. "

" I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. "

" I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself. "