7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 6 I read Phase Defiant somewhere between eight and ten times before I finished it. Not just to fix it — I'd already fixed a lot of it. I read it because I liked reading it. Every pass, it still struck me. I'd written the kind of book I … Continue reading The Voice I Like to Read
What You’re For
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 5 An AI tool will do almost anything you ask it to. For a while I treated that as the whole point — like the win was the capability. Look how much I can produce now. Look how fast. But something strange happens when capacity stops being the bottleneck. … Continue reading What You’re For
Introducing Myself
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 4 Before I can write a character, I have to introduce myself to them. That sounds strange for people I invented, but it's the truest way I know to describe it. I have to spend time — not just in the story I want to tell, but in the … Continue reading Introducing Myself
The Route
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 3 I sat down to work on the novel tonight and didn't write a single sentence of it. I spent the whole session working out how the major threads connect — how one specific character has to move through the story to get where she needs to end up. … Continue reading The Route
Who Gets a Vote
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 2 Someone reached out about my Bible picture project today to tell me I was using scripture to enrich myself, that I was blaspheming God, and that I'd better change my ways before I lost my soul. I'll be honest about the first thing I felt: amusement, then a … Continue reading Who Gets a Vote
