Disaster In Progress

DIP is the endearing term I use to refer to my next novel. It's not the only project I'm working on, but it will be the next novel. Some time.

I think I mentioned here before that I keep a file with one-page pitches of all my ideas for novels, screenplays, spec pilots, whatever. For years, the DIP was the last page on that file. It was only a very short description and a footnote saying I wasn't yet good enough to undertake it, but some day I would. I'm still not good enough, but I've been fid...