House of Nepenthe

Writing

House of Nepenthe: It's Harder to Work When You Just Don't Want to, Duh.

I recently finished another revision pass on House of Nepenthe, a process that felt like trying to get a long sofa up a spiral staircase, and I didn't even have anyone screaming pivot at me the whole time to keep me motivated. For context, Vise Manor came out

Writing

The Worst Note

This is one of the worst notes I leave myself. Worse than “terrible.” Worse than “full rewrite.” Very short means I couldn’t even write 2,000 words in a chapter, which means there just isn’t much here. Not enough conflict. Not enough plot. And yet we have to

Writing

The Perfect Epigraph Doesn't Exist