Once it's time to write the manuscript itself, she has to have her desk — and her headspace — ready to dive in. "I need everything perfect to start. After that, I could make a mess, but my des...
"It's all white snow. And then you figure out the path you're going to take, and you go to sleep, and it goes away. So I tend to sit there for many, many hours." Dedicated bookworms ma...
My arms hurt," she explains. "Everything kind of hurts. And after a while, you just don't even notice the pain. You’re just so engrossed in the book." Once the first draft is done, whi...
But first, she takes care to relish the moment. "It's a great feeling when you write that last sentence on the last page," Steel says. "There's a total mess in my office. I ...