Doug quoted:
"I learned to write a novelette on one of yours....I made an
extremely detailed synopsis of your story and from that
rewrote it...etc.
--Chandler to Gardner"
I'll add:
"When John D. MacDonald goes stale, he props open somebody
else's book and starts copy typing. After a few paragraphs or
pages, he finds himself changing a word here and a phrase
there, improving what he's copying. Pretty soon he's ready to
get back to work on something of his own."
Lawrence Block, from Writing the Novel
Mark
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