It Takes a Village
My Backyard Writing Spot. Isn't it gorgeous?! "They" say it takes a village to rear a child, but I say it takes a village to write a book. I cannot tell you the number of times I thought Conduit of Fire was done. Finished. Finito. Fin. I cannot tell you how many times I was wrong. If I wait for this thing to be perfect, I will never publish it. So perfection is off the table. But there is this thing called "author blindness," where the creators of the work quite literally go "blind" to certain issues that arise in the text. These could be simple typos, where we gloss over them because they're minor, and we know what we're trying to say, to larger ones, where we're trying to explain a concept but it doesn't quite come across because we forgot that either a) we didn't talk about that yet, or b) we forgot what we took out that relates to it and we still think it's in there, or c) some combination thereof. Remember, Conduit of Fir...
