Reflections, Research, and the Occasional Tangent
Writing a book is rarely a straight line. It's more like a spiral—circling back to ideas, revisiting characters, finding new layers in what seemed finished. These journal entries document the process as it unfolds: the breakthroughs, the obstacles, the research rabbit holes, and everything in between.
Two people on a road, a hidden war beneath the surface, and a story that refuses to explain everything too early; Book One earns its answers, then closes on an epilogue that points straight at what comes next.
Read MoreA local-looking address and a familiar phone code made it feel close, but the work kept slipping a day at a time until I realized the real distance wasn’t geography at all; it was trust, and the cost of every unanswered question was momentum.
Read MoreAfter twelve years of doubt, abandoned versions and repeatedly wondering whether I could actually write, one person read twenty-three chapters in four hours and told me they couldn't put it down. Five words, and suddenly everything changed.
Read MoreI had a completed rough draft, ten books worth of story, years of worldbuilding, enough notes to start my own small archive, and somehow I still felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.
Read MoreAt some point I realised there was an entire rough draft sitting in front of me. I had actually written a book, which should have felt bloody wonderful, except my first reaction was mostly to notice everything that was wrong with it.
Read MoreFor years I thought I kept failing and starting over. Looking at it now, I think all those different versions were me slowly digging through the crap until I found the story I'd actually been trying to tell.
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