flexibility for writers

Today I finished editing SILENT ORDER: WRAITH HAND, the second book of my forthcoming SILENT ORDER science fiction series.

I actually finished the rough draft of the book back in March, while I was waiting in a lobby to give someone a ride home.

I don’t have any profound point to make about that, save to note that it’s a good idea for writers to be flexible about where they can write. Some writers can only write so long as they’re at their desks with a cup of coffee and music playing and the Internet disconnected and so forth. But I’ve trained myself to write in any public place with a chair, so long as I have a laptop with a charge.

If I hadn’t, those three hours in the lobby would have been wasted. Instead, I finished the rough draft of a book I’m going to publish next month.

-JM