Redux: You're Not Half as Ugly as the Other People Here

Because it's less than two weeks until the launch of Black Hole Sun, I thought it would be fun to revisit some old blog posts.  I've been blogging about writing since 2004ish, and it's interesting–if not embarrassing–to read some of the things I wrote before. Today's blog redux is a post about the novel that would become Soul Enchilada. It was about 45k in length at this point but would grow to over 90k words. It's the last time I would write short and add, instead of writing long and...