Different strokes…

Every book a writer writes is a different experience, but some of them are more different than others.

Writing The Dark Lord’s Daughter has been a very different experience for me.

Normally – if one can say such a thing about writing – I am a task-oriented, linear, plodding planner type writer. That is, I usually have a plan (though I almost never stick firmly to it). I sit down more or less daily and work on the current scene until I run out of steam; when that gets finished, I go on to the next bit, in the order...