When you write a substantial piece of work - even if it’s not a whole book - you’re building a world.

It can be hard to distinguish what is your own world (your everyday reality, and the many things you know and think about) from the world of this specific writing project.

In the last few years I’ve mentored a few first-time authors. Some already had contracts with publishers, others didn’t (yet). In each case, they found it helpful to go through a preliminary exercise with me - a kind of “audit” of the world of their book.