It’s late. Decided to stay up a little past bed time to watch this week’s episode of I’ll be Gone in the Dark, which is the Michelle Macnamara/Golden State Killer documentary on HBO Max right now. Might be HBO proper, in fact I’d be surprised if it isn’t, but we’re...

The opening to this new novel is coming together, damnit. It’s a slow process for me right now. Which I...I was going to say “hate.” But, that’s not true. I don’t hate it. I love it, actually, spending all this time on these scenes, getting them right. Or, at least...

I wrote a scene today. Top to bottom. And it’s a solid one, I think. We’ll see how it reads. But, I think it works. This opening sequence is still longer than I want it to be, or I thought I wanted it to be, I suppose. But...I like it now. It’s exciting. As long as...