The “Vast” Method

(This post was originally published at the author’s website, Hahvi.net.)

So…I recently finished a very rough draft of The Red: Trials, the follow up to my near-future thriller The Red: First Light. There is A LOT of fixing up, figuring out, and filling in to do — and maybe there will be fatal flaws, I don’t know — but this was a very difficult book for me, so getting to this point is a triumph.

For those of you who are writers, I thought I’d share my experience of how I finally got those last p...