Category Archives: Writing Diary

Writing Diary: What to reveal and what to hide

Book: The Impostor (Inheritor II) Words: 14,211 A few times recently people who’ve been reading The Execution or The Expulsion have asked me about some of the more enigmatic things Arandes says. All this talk of controversy and mysterious political … Continue reading

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Writing Diary: The real secret to writing pain

Book: The Impostor Words: 10,170 A while ago I wrote a post about how to write torture, back when I thought I could write these authoritative posts on writing technique. I’m over that now, but something has come back to … Continue reading

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Writing Diary: At last, a protagonist I get on with

Book: The Impostor (The Inheritor: II) Words: 6395 Io is twenty this year. She’s stuck in a permanent state of being twenty (not that great an age, if I remember rightly) in the books, but as a character she’s twenty … Continue reading

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