51k words hammered out on the first draft which I've gone back to over the course of this past year and edited as I went. I typically try not to edit while I write, but at points where I was stuck on the tension or motivations, I found it helpful to refine parts and dig back into the language. After 16 months of writing, this thing is nearly done -- or pretty close. There's been some really rewarding parts of this process, but the most fascinating to me was creating a "villain" out...
Published on May 08, 2012 04:27