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In my first attempt at this book, I had the entire thing written from a single POV, because I thought that might make it an easier project to complete. But when I think about it, almost all of the books …

I’ve almost caught up to the end of my writing so far, and it has made me realize just how much work the book needs. Yes, it’s only a first draft, something that is meant to be improved upon significantly, …

So, I have been a little disappointed in myself this week for the lack of progress I made during this self-quarantine. Aside from the day job, I had zero distractions besides what I imposed on myself, and yet I barely …

Yep, I cut a scene – or rather combined it with another. That’s been one of the benefits of this visualization process and writing notes about how I want the scenes to go. Before, I had only loose scene ideas, …

A little more than half of those new scenes actually came at the airport days ago, when I was traveling home, but I did get through three today, finishing up with the midpoint of the story. While it’s a little …

Over the past two days of writing, I made it through 6 scenes of the visualization process – hopefully with more to come later today, but two of those scenes weren’t in my original plan. They came about because the …

This process of playing the scenes in my head and making notes about them feels tedious and slow – not because the scenes themselves are tedious, but because I am terrified that I am not doing it “right” and am …