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Works in Progress

Eighteen Things I Ended Up Thinking While Working On My Current WIP Today

This would all be easier if it was done already. This will probably be okay, but it’s not really the best I could do, is it? I should pull everything down and start over, from scratch. I swear I could do better if I just started everything over from scratch. Life would have been much easier if I’d just said, way back at the beginning, that the setting for these novels was The Gold Coast, 2007, instead of pretending they were some mystical Ur-City that exists in every hardboiled novel. Because of Raymond Chandler, all hardboiled novels are set in San Fransisco or Los Angeles. Even the ones that are’t.  It’s hardboiled, not noir. Stop calling it noir. Noir is a colour. It only applies to film. I’d really like a hotdog. With mustard. A good hotdog would be nice right now. If you’re writing a series about a character who has returned from the dead twice, you’re kinda in