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The chapter I wrote tonight was somehow missing from the novel until now, despite being the inciting incident of the original novel. You see, in all this writing, I somehow managed to forget the title of the novel and the whole twilight of the wolves aspect to the novel. And though that was not the
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Everyone is sick at my house and I’m reading about currencies. This isn’t super relevant to this first narrative arc but will be important to the second one. Hilariously. I’ll end up doing all this research and it will probably only find its way into twenty lines of dialogue. Though part of the underlying narrative
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Sometimes writing a novel is like assembling a puzzle but you’re missing the box that shows you the final image. You start putting pieces together and you think you’re making a lot of progress, storming through this little puzzle, only to discover that there are hundreds of pieces that fell off the table, somehow got
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I’m a big advocate of reading. Read all the time. Read everything. Some writers will tell you that they don’t read while they’re writing books or find it difficult to find the time to read while they write, but these people are babies, I’m sad to say. You should always be reading, if’n you intend
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Worldbuilding While I love worldbuilding, I don’t typically do it in advance. Most of it is spun up as I go, as it’s needed, and so I am actively discovering the world as I go. With the original Twilight of the Wolves, this was less true. I’ve had the shape of the world in my
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In setting down to rewrite a novel I wrote fifteen years ago, I decided to reread the opening. It’s a novel that begins quite aggressively but also in a way that I always appreciated. However, it had been over a decade since I’d last looked at this novel. Part of me assumed nothing would be
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I began this novel on 6/17/2025, but I also began it on October 1st, 2010. Twilight of the Wolves was my second novel published and the fifth one I wrote. It came out in 2014 and then I took it out of print several years ago when I decided to abandon the internet. I always
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Welcome to my newsletter about publishing and writing fiction. You’re likely here because you downloaded one of my books in a giveaway or you subscribe to my substack. I’ve had a few issues with substack lately so I decided it was time to finally start my own proper website once more. Consider this a hub
