Day 2,708: Painful Setup

Right now, setting up story is painful.

That’s where I am in the process of writing my current book: setting things up. There’s so much unknown, so much detail to fill in, so much *I* don’t know yet about my characters, and it’s so easy for me to write outside of the flow and just kind of force things that I then want to go back and change.

I was better about that with my first book. I just WROTE as opposed to falling to far on the side of either not caring or caring too much. I was able t...