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The Big Books of Summer 2025
Elizabeth
Elizabeth asked E. Lockhart:

What is your writing process? Do you outline? If so, does the outline change as the book progresses? What about word count? Do books ever tend to be less than your intended goal? What do you do if they are?

E. Lockhart I don't outline, but I often have a sense of what the biggest events in the book will be -- and the general place the characters will end up. Scene by scene, I am winging it, and there's a lot of discovery in that process. My books are always different than the book I thought I'd be writing when I started, but if the story is really not as good as I want it to be, I rewrite it. I rewrite a minimum of 12 times, I'd say.
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Suzie Toumeh
Suzie Toumeh asked E. Lockhart:

*Fly on the Wall* --> What happened to Orange and Up Yours? I kept waiting for them to come up in the end of the book or something, but they didn't.

Nari
Nari asked E. Lockhart:

Now that We Were Liars is out, are there any plans to write another book in the near future - and, if so, have you considered writing another series (like Ruby Oliver) or joint novel (like How to Be Bad) or at the very least a tie-in short story (like The Bake Sale)?

Zara
Zara asked E. Lockhart:

What inspired you to use free verse and repetition in We Were Liars? I found both techniques very effective, especially when you used repetition for a sort of "mirroring" effect.

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