Discovery

Writing The Drop: Season Three has been an adventure, both writing it and life-wise. I started it back in October and made good progress for three weeks before breaking my collarbone late in the month. That incident caused a diversion since I couldn’t type very well for a number of weeks, which caused me to go into editing mode. That actually turned out to be a blessing since I was able to publish First Step in the new year. I returned to writing Season Three and then spent a few days in the hospital for my appendix. I was able to keep the momentum going, though, and had The Wife bring my laptop to the hospital and I wrote a little. So, why the title of this post? I started the book with a concept about the storyline for each character and executed that as I wrote. It was only later in the book that I discovered a theme that came about unexpectedly. This discovery means I need to take some time and go back in the book to add some clues and hints along the way. Not too much heavy lifting. I do think it’s amazing that this revelation came to me as late as it did and naturally, as part of the writing process. Maybe it would’ve popped up if I’d outlined the whole book beforehand, maybe not. I’m glad it did and it reinforces my approach to writing these books.