A first draft is like a good steak…

Happy New Year, writer-peeps! Let us all do a dance of raucous joy for two reasons.

1) The shitstorm that was 2016 is behind us.

2) I have successfully completed a first draft of my angry, political, not-so-alternate near-future novel. It’s messy as hell right now but I feel pretty confident that it doesn’t suck.

Even though working on that book was thoroughly exhausting, all I want to do is dig back into it right this second and start cleaning up issues I’ve already thought of. But I’m not...