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Gail Carson Levine:
Lately, I've been thinking about the ideas I get for writing. Instead of writing for fun, I've been trying to find a story idea that is fandom and movie-worthy, and any ideas that aren't like that I turn away. When you first started writing, did you write for fun, and then work on really perfecting and polishing your works? And once a story, even a short one, is written, you can always go back and change it, right?
Gail Carson Levine
For me, writing has always been a mixture of fun, hard work, and struggle, and I still do a lot of polishing. Perfection is beyond me. Until a story is close to publication, yes, you can keep revising. When I'm considering ideas, I look for ones that spark more ideas. Fandom and movies don't come into it.
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Pamela Bronson
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Gail Carson Levine:
I think I remember that you wrote a sequel to Ella Enchanted, where her happily-ever-after with the prince wasn't happening. I could swear I saw it in the Scholastic flier! It might have been called Ella Disenchanted, or maybe that was the title of a blurb. But now it seems to have disappeared from the record. Was it suppressed by popular demand? Or did I make it up somehow?
Ava Larsen
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Gail Carson Levine:
Oh my gosh!!! I love your books so much! The first one that I read was Ella Enchanted and I fell in love with your work instantly!!! I'm reading a few of your books right now, and I wanted to ask, Are you going to write some new books? By the way, your my favorite author!!!
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