When you start writing a book, you can't imagine what it'll be like when it finally comes out.

That's because at that starting point, you have no idea of how many hundreds of hours it will take to write it, the number of nights you'll spend alone in your room, struggling to find just the right word. You have no clue how many social events you'll have to miss, how many celebrations that will have to go on without you because a tiny sliver of a hint of a shadow of great scene snuck into your brain and there's no way you're going to let it get away.

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