Kent Babin
@kentb
Fun fact about me: I wrote the first draft of my first novel on my mobile phone while commuting to work by bus in Baku, Azerbaijan. Paragraph by paragraph, day by day, 90,000 words came together to form an unreadable story where some characters changed names halfway through. 😂 Six drafts later, the novel I published resembled that first draft in protagonist and setting only. But had I not started writing on my phone that one morning, I probably never would've written a novel.
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Serra Sa
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This is amazing! Congrats on the consistency and your first novel! Curious, did you map the plot out? Did you know what you were going to write each day? Where is it published?
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Kent Babin
@kentb
Thank you! Didn't map anything out in advance. Only did that once I moved to the second draft. And I'd often just come up with stuff on the spot. I think that's why the first draft was so disjointed. For my second novel, I planned it in advance and generally treated the whole process more seriously. 😂 Both novels are available on Kindle at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kent-Babin/author/B01KYRFMZQ
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