Deb asked Josh Vasquez:

How much planning do you do before writing a novel, and how long do you take in planning?

Josh Vasquez Well, with my first book, it took several years for it to come to life! It started off as a movie script outline when a friend and I wanted to film a low budget zombie movie in high school. We never made the movie and the outline sat dormant for a long time.
Once I decided to make the outline into a novel, it took several months to flesh out the scenes into chapters and then almost a year to finish the first draft! There was a lot of learning for my first book!
But now planning goes much smoother now that I know how I work. For me, it's best to write out almost a summary of every chapter, kinda like Pre-Cliff Notes. From there I write the first draft and then it's all downhill after that!

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