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…
I’ve been so busy this last month that I swear I took a single deep breath and the entirety of June blitzed past. At certain points, I was so eye-wateringly busy that just cleaning the cat boxes constituted a break. So, what exactly was devouring all my time this month? Rewrites. Due to a strange…