Popping the cork on something new...

At this time last year, I was in the last stages of completing my book. I had reached 44,137 words, and I finally called it finished after nearly two years of work. And then something curious happened: I stopped writing. For a long time, the creative juices just seemed to have stopped flowing. Throughout 2017, I didn't add many words, I mostly subtracted them. I pruned a little here, trimmed a little there, shaping and refining the book until it reached its final form.If Hemingway's advice to...