🚀The Dark Age: Writing well takes time

Hello, friends!

I’ve had a very good weekend. Late last week I handed to my editor the copyedited ghostwritten manuscript, which means I’m more or less done with my work on that book, and can turn my focus again to The Dark Age. I wrote quite a lot on Saturday, nearly a full chapter, and Sunday more of the same. A productive weekend, one that included no fewer naps for my having written more words.

A reader emailed me recently to ask how long it’ll be before this novel’s in their hands. The answer, of course, is that I can’t answer that question. I might finish The Dark Age by summer’s end, as I’ve hoped to, but then there’s the matter of revising it, and following that, of finding a publisher for it, and, succeeding at that, then revising it some more, and waiting a year or more for a publication date… Publishing is a slow business, I tell you.

Verlyn Klinkenborg, in an interview about his book Several short sentences about writing, touched a bit on writing pace: