I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

我花了八个月的时间对小说进行概述和研究，然后才开始写一篇散文。

-- Jeffery Deaver 杰佛瑞·迪佛