As some of you may know, I’m in the midst of totally butchering the first draft I wrote of THE LAST GODDESS. I’ve rewritten about 90% of it from scratch (and hooboy, have I grown as a writer since 2014). Throughout this whole rewrite, I’ve decided to do something insane: have each chapter be utterly…
Confession time: I’ve been so smelly while writing The Last Goddess that a few days ago, my partner politely asked me to knock it off. It’s bad enough now that when I reach out to pet my cats, they sniff, wince, and flee. But I can’t stop. I’ve made this nostril-punching miasma synonymous with writing…
I’m past the halfway mark for The Last Goddess! Based on the calculations of at least five different Excel sheets, this beast should be done by mid-November. Thanks to my two idiot weirdos (sorry, TLG’s protagonists), my search histories have been riddled with a number of wtf? queries of late. In no particular order, here…
Right now, I’m in the throes of rewriting a novel I had originally started back in 2014. Generally, I’m the type of writer who “front loads” rewrites — in other words, I tend to excessively rework outlines and scene beats until the kinks are ironed out. (That’s not to say that I don’t rewrite drafts…