Grace Draven

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338 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice · #255. Student Spotlight: How Grace Draven Learned to Write Faster (Without Sacrificing Quality) · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Okay.

And so because they wanted you to stay within that.

So I always viewed outline within that same sort of rigid structure and absolutely followed the philosophy that an outline was a death of creativity, which actually is not the case now.

I have been thoroughly convinced otherwise.

I still don't use um

a very strict, uh you know, rigid outline, but I like the idea that you had mentioned before that it is a living document, that it is meant to change as you go along, but it still provides structure.

And structure is very important to teach you how to work smart, not just hard.

Well, in this particular case, for the one where I really just poured everything I learned from your stuff into the work itself, it was not tied to this particular contract, but I did have a pre-order out for uh Amazon.

And I had already uh delayed it by a month.

And then the new one was coming up and I'd had a bit of a s uh health scare.

I've been three years in remission um from a cancer diagnosis.

And so I'm still on monitoring.

And I'd gotten a call from my oncologist at the end of December.

And they said, Hey, we need you to come in.

And I thought, Oh God.

You know.

So this could be a real issue.

And I had talked to my very good friend and fellow author and Alona Andrews and said, What do you think?

I'm thinking I may have to cancel this pre-order.

And she's like, You cannot cancel that pre-order.

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