A Living Outline, the way I avoided writing my novel's shitty first draft

One of the craziest accomplishments of my short writing career was finishing So Say the Waiters, book 1, in under a month. And it wasn’t just a sloppy first draft. It was a pretty tight second draft, but I’ll explain that in a second. I’ll admit, I did pick one of the longest months of the year (August) to start writing, but I hammered out at least 10 pages a day, every day, all August long. It was exhausting. I went a little crazy. My sleeping schedule was all screwed up, but I was happier t...