A Year of Writing Dangerously

On the 24th of August 2020, I began writing the revised version of The Magic Cloak. I had a prototype version already completed. All I needed to do was flesh the plot out a little. How hard could that be? It shouldn’t take more than a few weeks. Two months, tops.

As it turned out, I finally finished on the 22nd of August 2021—364 days after I started.

So, what went wrong. And what went right?

I hit the ground running and dashed off over 8,000 words in 10 days. Then I wrote absolutely no...