Finished with Chapter 17 of Blight last week and I’m going through the whole manuscript again to gauge the flow. I finally wrote a pivotal chapter that I’ve been anxious to do since the beginning of the novel. Writing a book is a little like laying tile – sometimes you focus on the squares and then look back and see the whole. Even though I do a rough outline of my novels in advance, it still surprises me how much the story weaves itself and bumps me away from the original plans. I especially had fun writing the Earl of Dieyre’s character. He’s the antithesis of Colvin and it is fun playing them off against each other.
Back to the squares again…
