Finished up a structural revision yesterday on book 3–it wasn’t like one of my usual full revision passes, but the structural element I decided to fix had far-reaching consequences, so rewriting still took a bit. Next up, a short story for an anthology, and then back for a proper deep revision pass.<\/p>\n
This new short story got me thinking about my brainstorming process, particularly the part where I use someone as a sounding board, rather than doing it all on my own. For this story, I used the sister, who is the best brainstormer ever, partly because we are on a mental wavelength, and partly for reasons explored below. It struck me how for my writing process, brainstorming with a quality sounding board was like moving house with a friend. Leaving aside big furniture, you can<\/em> move all on your own, either through a marathon effort or chipping away at it load by load, but having someone to help and encourage and keep you focused and carry heavy things with makes it so much smoother<\/em> and faster.<\/p>\n In the way of things popping at the same time that relate to each other, I was linked to this recently:<\/p>\n