Mark Canberra asked Brittney Morris:

I'm reading SLAY with a book club run by my university's library. First of all, love it! I've already pre-ordered The Cost of Knowing. But the librarians mentioned you wrote the story in 10 days (!!! :0 !!!). What strategies do you use to keep yourself motivated as you sit and churn out a draft? Are you an extensive outliner? Thank you!

Brittney Morris Thank you so much! I did write the first draft of SLAY lightning fast - 11 days. I was aiming to finish in time for a Twitter pitch contest (one of the rules was that you could only enter finished manuscripts, and it was only 2 weeks away so I had to MOVE). Fast drafting has been awesome because it doesn't give me time to second guess what I'm writing or convince myself it's not good enough, or that it's missing something (which I can always add later), or that it was a bad idea in the first place and nobody's going to read it, etc. I can get very harsh with myself if given enough time to stew. I take just 24 hours to outline first, and I keep it to exactly 1 page. Any more than that and I start to feel overwhelmed and talk myself out of it. :)

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