I had kind of forgotten this until just now, but I spent SO MUCH...

I had kind of forgotten this until just now, but I spent SO MUCH TIME trying to find missing pieces after I already had a solid draft of All the Birds in the Sky.

Like, I spent months and months and months,  just writing different extra sections to try and fit in to what I already had. I had the bones of the story about Patricia the witch and Laurence the mad scientist, but not the muscle and sinew. I just wrote tons of scenes, some of which made it into the book and most of which didn’t, trying to find the moments the two of them needed every step of the way. I remember that I assigned myself to write 3000 words or 5000 words or in one case 10,000 words of something in particular, just so I would have a lot of it to work with. At the same time, some of these files didn’t quite have as much stuff as I had originally “assigned” myself.