Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.