The Writing Moment

Finished the first draft of “A Tribe Called Death” today.

Began it on impulse in December, 2025. Set it aside to finish “Unfocused”. Wrote and revised five drafts of “Unfocused” before setting it aside to cool at the end of May of this year.

Then I returned to “A Tribe Called Death”. It managed to flow out in very satisfying ways. I didn’t want to write or talk about it because I didn’t want to jinx it — knock wood — so I only spoke about it to my wife from time to time. Never talked about what it was about; only told her about generic writing progress.

Today, I wrote The End.

320 pages. 70,000 words.

A vampire, detective, and the Ministry of Death.

Now I’ll set it aside. Let it cool. Pick up “Unfocused” again tomorrow. Revise and edit it again.

Prepare to submit it to somewhere, someone.

And go on.