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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4269335" data-attributes="member: 1288">The first draft actually went pretty quick. It had to, due to fairly tight deadlines. Second draft was one of the longest rewrites I've had to do, but I think the results were definitely worth it.Schedule? 2,500 to 3,000 words, six days a week. Even for me, it's pretty grueling to keep that up on a project as long as a novel.Influences? Hmm... I'm not sure how to answer that. I can tell you who my favorite authors are, and I know they've all influenced aspects of my writing, but only aspects. For instance, I'm a big fan of Steven Brust's Taltos novels, but I moderate the amount of his influence based on the novel. For instance, the main characters in some of my novels have a lot more of the Taltos "smart-ass quotient" than in others. (The Magic novel has only a moderate smart-ass quotient, whereas some of my original novels have an incredibly high one.)I'm also a huge fan of really intricate, complex plotlines, ala Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. But again, while I like those, they're only appropriate for certain books, so it's only a "sometime influence."</blockquote>