Hacking and Slashing

I spent most of my summer working on my second novel. I’ve been diddling with it for years, but never really submersing myself in it. Over that time I’ve blamed a lot of things for that - everything from my own lack of self-discipline to my job status, and from complete burn-out to a complete lack of talent.

The truth is probably that I was intensely focused on trying to get “The Evolution of Shadows” published.

If one spends years in a single gear, I guess the other gears get rusty, or frozen up. But, I’ve discovered over the last two months or so the one thing that hasn’t gone away is that ability to slice a crippled scene with the cold ruthlessness of a killer.

All the reviews of “Shadows” are making it even more ruthless. Not sure I can live with myself if the second book is weaker than the first.