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Alana Mortensen
08-07-2007, 02:29 AM
Aye guys,

My novel that I begun three yeas ago has seen a resurgence and now is an active project. But I have run into a questionable tactic.

The MC, Andréa, a novelist, just got an agent to represent her and is flying to NY to meet him/her. She boarded the plane and it taxied out onto the runway but is denied take off clearanmce because of a medical emergency on another flight backed up air traffic and shetook out her laptop and startd writing the opening of book #2.

Should I include this in the book I am working on? If it is ok then what format should I use?

Alana

ChaosTitan
08-07-2007, 02:59 AM
I wouldn't use an excerpt from the MC's own novel unless it somehow ties into the main plot. See Stephen King's "Misery" (if you haven't already) for a great example of including a novel within a novel.