I’m trying to write a novel this month. It has been a wild experience. The things I’ve had to research, would make even the FBI gasp at my search history. Here are a few things I’ve learned along the way:

Typos Are God’s Gift to Writers

A few nights ago, I was writing about an ant colony and accidentally wrote the following:

The aunts were furious. Inside the aunt colony…

I noticed my mistake and was about to correct the sentence. Then I stopped myself. What if there really was an auntcolony? I thought. I kept on writing, and soon the following was born:

In the aunthole, three egg timers all chimed at once. It was nursing time. The aunts climbed off their sofas and waddled over to three different holes, set around the room. They peeked down into the lower chamber. It was a huge cavern, larger than a football stadium. Lamps lit the edges, casting a golden glow on the center of the cavern. The cavern was filled with rows upon rows of pink baby cradles. Inside each cradle, a baby aunt slept. The day was coming. Soon the baby aunts would be ready to leave their cradles, put on their pink dresses, and lay upon their sofas.

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