For me, on every level, 2021 has been a struggle. I contracted Covid-19 last December, and I am still dealing with symptoms of what is now increasingly referred to as Long Covid. This has affected my day job and my writing. It has been difficult for me to move into Hammering mode, where I actually hammer out prose. My brain is not running at 100%, and has not been 100% all year. It is rather […]
During a conversation with a fellow author yesterday, the subject of tinkering came up. Both of us, it became clear, will read and re-read our draft chapters and stories and, as is normal, we will spot something. It can be prose, sentence construction, plot discrepancies…almost anything. In my own case, knowing that people were reading story samples resulted in me going back and re-reading the samples, only to find…yep, you guessed it, stuff that I