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 consider myself someone whom Raymond Holt would give a curt but approving head nod to if I showed him my OneNote organization system. So, when my agent asked me to assemble a story bible for The Arkqunots Project, I thought: Pffffft. Give me 20 minutes. Narrator: It was not 20 minutes. At the time,…