Stuff Wot I Do As A Writer

I’ve just completed a final read-through of the Daughter of Blood manuscript before it heads into production (I hope this will prove to be the case, at any rate) and as I went along I realised that there are a few things I’m constantly doing as a writer.

One is drawing sketch maps, roughing out where my characters are and where they’re going and how those places relate to each other in the context of the larger Haarth map. Mostly these sketch maps look like a spider crawled through an inkwell...