I mentioned last week that I’d just completed the second draft of my next book (I’m going to need a codename for this project, aren’t I? I don’t think I’m ready to share the actual title just yet). I’d worked hard to get it finished by the end of September and felt pleased to have met my …
Over the last few days I’ve been committing to paper a long chain of thought that, I hope, is going to serve as the basis of the biggest writing project I’ve ever undertaken. I’m not plotting yet, just working on a setting that I hope to develop exhaustively before I embark on the actual story. I’ve never done …
With each writing project I embark on, I find it useful to build a kind of digital scrapbook of images, videos and miscellaneous pieces that each reflect some part of the story I’m trying to tell. Most of the images are atmospheric, but some are photos of people who resemble the story’s characters, or of landscapes or places like those …
I’m about to start work on something new. Two somethings, in fact. Three, in a way. Maybe even five. One of those projects is a single novel, and another is a trilogy of sorts. The third or fifth, depending on whether you count a trilogy as one project or three, is a little spree of short stories …
In the notes at the end of The Girl with Glass Feet, I wrote that writing is like going underwater. I still hold that to be true, and until two months ago I was swimming around on the ocean bottom, deeply immersed in the final draft of my new novel. It’s finished now, completed at the …