So I only wrote a whopping 300-something words (not counting this), but while working on Fire Mind I realized that my old maps were completely inappropriate for the type of work I was trying to do.

I ran into one yesterday… when I tried to write.  Nothing came out and the longer I stared at the screen, the more depressed I became. But I did stare and I managed to tap out about 100 words between the hours of 9am-5pm before cursing my laptop and falling into the comforting embrace of [...]

In a lot of ways writing is like a constant practice in role-playing. You get inside the heads of different characters–often with incredibly disparate personalities–and put them in excruciatingly difficult situation to see how they react.

NOTE: I’ve updated this A LOT.  You can look at the new code over here. I’ve added a new book progress meter to the sidebar here so I have a visible representation of forward momentum.  It gets awfully depressing sometimes when you type and type and nothing seems to change. NaNoWriMo showed me the value [...]