A bit about the way I work...

If you've been reading along, you might notice that I say "I'll do X" and when I post the next update, it turns out I did something a bit different. Sometimes in the previous post it might have seemed like I was very firm in my position, so the change comes as a surprise.

That has a lot to do with the way I've always done creative work. If I come up with a better idea, I'm willing to change something no matter how far along I am, or how thoroughly I've thought something through. Nothing's fixed until the project is done. Not much anyway. For example, with my last book, it was two weeks before the deadline when I threw out everything I had done so far and started over. I made my deadline, and got better reviews than the book I'd done before it, which took a year.

I just thought I should make a formal post on this so that when I inevitably change my mind about something I've seemed sure of previously, no one's surprised. Usually, when I change my mind it's not to make less work for myself at all. I usually end up doing more because I realize that it's what the project needs to be its best.