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The Black Pit of Writing

My summer has been completely consumed by writing and by the things that I've been trying to do to have a good summer. Everything from family reunions, small adventures, and the usual just going out and doing something in the summer because we have Jet here with us so we can really explore. Writing has been eating my head. All of it, including most of the words that usually get out into my journals. I think that here, I'm going to be talking more about the mechanics and reality of actually being a writer, and trying to get multiple novels off our plate, and onto my plate, and how to get into and through my characters. It's such a huge part of my life now, that it's just insane. Everything I do, everything I think has been feeding back into character, plot, motivations, and what better detail could be used for a particular stage of the various stories we have going. Everything from how Olympic style epee is different from foil, to the way the roads run across the US, t...