Writing Update – 2/17/21

I finally finished it.

I finished the first draft of my 6th novel. It took me over a year, far longer than it should have, but it’s finally done at 412 handwritten pages.

Why did this take me so long? First was the lockdowns. I had a writing system in place at my office where I would take my lunches for writing. I could pick up my binder and my pen, find a quiet corner of the office and write without interruption for an hour. That went away when my job decided that we should all work from ...