...can one love being a writer and yet hate writing? I think the word ‘hate’ puts it a little strongly, but it’s clear to me that there is indeed a love/hate relationship of some sort involved, and to illustrate, let’s consider book seven in the Empire series for a moment. I have recently started writing The Emperor’s Knives and, surprisingly for me, I know quite a lot as to what’s going to happen in the course of Marcus going after the men who killed his father. I have a nice little prologue, major characters mapped out, and even the twist at the end is forming nicely in my imagination. And yet… (the writer pauses to smile knowingly to himself). I know full well that by the time I’m done wrestling the story to a fitting conclusion it’ll be as good as or even better than the ones that precede it, but that doesn’t prevent me from staring at that first blank page with just a hint of fear and loathing before shrugging and throwing myself into the task.
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Sunday Times bestselling novelist Anthony Riches at http://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/01/20/the-process-of-writing-novels-by-anthony-riches
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