Why Momentum is Important in Writing

One of the biggest challenges I’ve had to overcome with this second novel I’m working on now has been maintaining the momentum I had with the first one, along with the three shorter stories I wrote earlier this year.

Writing between late December and January, I wrote the rough draft of “Killing the Immortals” in six weeks flat. It took me six months to get it ironed out to be ready for publication, but I banged out 85,000 relatively coherent words of that story in six weeks. That seems crazie...