Since I last wrote in this space, I’ve snorkeled with manta rays, climbed through lava tubes, kayaked next to a humpback whale and her calf, surfed, danced with a volcano goddess, and drank an awful lot of coffee.  Then I came back from Hawai’i, and spent the next week and a half editing the next book for Tor.  Critical time—somewhere in the two weeks of vacating I think a lot of the disparate threads of the manuscript came back together, and I’ve been much happier about the last two drafts.

I’ll be writing more in this space in coming days, but for the moment I want to catch y’all up on my writing as it’s spread throughout the internet.

• Over on Aidan Moher’s blog A Dribble of Ink, I continue my blog post series on non-Western fantasy source material with a gigantic essay on Romance of the Three Kingdoms that is, among many other things, a naked plea for everyone on the internet to just watch Red Cliff already.  If you missed it, I posted a similar essay on Journey to the West last month!  Already thinking about next month’s entry, which kind of terrifies me in scope.
• On Sunday, inspired by my recent round of revisions, I posted to Operation Awesome about Allen Ginsberg’s Fourteen Steps for Revising Poetry, which work for almost everything really.
• For that matter, a couple weeks back I posted another little entry on wordcount and tracking accurate metrics in writing that might be useful to anyone who’s ever agonized over wordcount.  I don’t so much offer answers as suggest that questions which are easy to ask and answer are not always the most helpful.

I hope you’ve all been well, and I look forward to posting here a little more often in coming weeks!