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Mark Pawlosky, author of 'Hack' - Journalist talks using experience for thrillers, why good writing is re-writing, and keeping a style guide handy

Writer's Routine

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Is It a Roadblock to Writing 60,000 Words?

In between when I have that all periods, I'm up walking around the house and I do find that I'll be writing and I really like where I'm going and I know what's coming next but I have a little bit of focus problems. It allows me or allows the characters to really come off the page for me. And it also helps me say, okay, is this exactly, okay, this is what the character did in chapter 14. And now we are on chapter 33. Is that, does that sound honest? Does that sound factual? Do that to my ear? Is that how the character would react in this? What they would say, or am I just putting stuff

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