Diana Gabaldon didn't set out to write Outlander. She was practicing. She was writing a novel she never intended to publish, just to see if she could. And then something she wrote one afternoon changed everything — including your life, probably.
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Diana Gabaldon Invented Jamie Fraser by Accident — The Story of How a Practice Novel Became the Biggest Romance Series of the Last 30 Years
Diana Gabaldon has said it many times, with the amused clarity of someone who has spent thirty years being asked to explain the inexplicable: she didn't set out to write Outlander.
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