When you work on a book and you have planned everything out and you are putting flesh to an idea and a surmise that before was mainly bones something funny happens. Your brain goes into an altered state where the words you write are not quite the words you want but rather the words dictated by the task at hand.

It’s no secret that I use the Goodreads blog to talk about writing which makes this space a lab, of sorts, and myself the subject.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another. It may require some kind of hard coding in between. But it is in the accuracy of the decoding that the true ability of the encoder is measured.

Every book is a journey. It’s a conjunction of influences, ideas and knowledge.