Snapped In Half, All Burned Up Dept.

Ever drop a plate and have it breakexactly down the middle? There's your analogy for what happened with draft 4 of the outline forAlways Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. I got to the halfway mark, and realized everything after that point had been, uh, "rendered inoperative" by all the changes I'd made.

Liberation or disaster? It's great to not have to walk around with the baggage of one's legacy decisions in a story, to be sure. It's also a mess to have to come up with something to replace it al...