Things have been quiet on here this year as I am mainly working on the first draft of my novel. I’m about 30,000 words in and it’s a beast of burden: so different to writing short stories, so much planning and pushing through the mediocre draft and constantly changing world-building. I’m enjoying the world-building more than I thought and although my original concept was more dystopian but Earth-based, it may evolve into its own secondary world at this rate. What I’m struggli