Bam! Just Like That….

I’ve been struggling to write D&R because I couldn’t get in the head of the last three killers I created. As a result, it would take hours to write a single paragraph and the book just wasn’t moving along. I scrapped two of those three killers and put the book ideas on “in progress but waiting” status.

One night last week, I was lying in bed playing a game on my phone and listening to an audiobook called Quackery by Lydia Kang. The book is non-fiction history of medicine (it’s very good, I highly recommend if you like history). I was not thinking about D&R at all. As a matter of fact, I’d spent the day writing on NN7… Anyway I swapped two gems in the game to make a powerup and bam; there it was….

At 12:27 am, I got out of bed and returned to my office; booted the laptop because just like that, I was in the head of the killer. I wrote until 1:39 am… and I’d written 3,083 words in that hour and I had the first killer chapter plus some of the first Marshals chapter plus an outline of what I needed to write the next morning.

The following day I added another 8,000 words; it’s moving right along now.