I’m not saying how I just spent the last three days wasn’t fun or interesting, but I am saying it was definitely a way to procrastinate on figuring out how the heist in Book Two is going to work. I was the kid who waited until 9PM the night before an assignment was due…

Most of the time I can keep the layout of a room or scene in my head just fine. But every once in a while, my brain conjures something that starts to trip me up and I lose where people are and how big or small something is. And so, I turn to Visio…

For a while now, I’ve known that the second book would be a heist, a way to introduce some of the more complex machinations of the various magical factions by having them meet new characters as they build the crew. For inspiration, I rewatched a bunch of heist films…

The first draft of the first book is more like Draft 1.4, considering how many times I rewrote the first four chapters. I simply couldn’t figure out how to get these four characters into the right situation while keeping you, dear reader, interested. I’m sure there’s more Kill Your Darlings moments to come…