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I'd recommend the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, although it's probably not fair to recommend a thirteen book mega-epic series for something like this.
So, got news for you buster. The Wheel of Time is now a fourteen volume mega-epic, not counting the prequel novel New Spring or the companion book The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
It's a good read for disciplined ones. I remember trying to tackle it about a decade ago, but only made it to book six, Lord of Chaos before petering out. These days it's a collection of audiobooks so I should listen to it before I go to sleep at night, get it done.
I'll look into Lee Child, I don't think I've read their books. Sounds like I would know if I had.
Advice today sounds a bit hard to swallow, but if you can forgive how blunt it is it'll help you with your writing.
- Forget about how good you are; just write.
- Let go of your perfectionist tendencies.
- Practice and repetition make art effortless.
- Without discipline practice is undone. Persevere.
- There will be resistance. Write through it.
- Enough with excuses and do it, do it, do it.
So I’m cutting that branch off the cherry tree.
Singing this will be my victory.
Then I, I see them coming after me.
And they’re following me across the sea.
And now they’re stinging my friends and my family.
And I, I don’t know why this is happening.
~ Thrice, Black Honey.