We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.
Lynne Rae PerkinsOne of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.
Lynne Rae PerkinsSome of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.
Lynne Rae PerkinsIn the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.
Lynne Rae PerkinsI 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.
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