I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.
Lynne Rae PerkinsI started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.
Lynne Rae Perkins