Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on November 30, 2013 Decisions, Decisions In the previous post, I talked about how the idea for If a Butterfly originally formed. It was early-fall 2003, and I had been trying to develop a plot idea for NaNoWriMo, which was then about two months away. I had a …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on July 25, 2012 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] For the past year or so people have been asking, “How’s your book coming?” referring to my novel. If a Butterfly. I had usually been telling them that the first draft …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on July 21, 2012 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] During the past two years [2011 to 2012], because I thought my novel, If a Butterfly, was nearing completion [silly me], I started writing (and practicing) pitches for it. I wanted …
If a Butterfly’s Beginnings Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on October 4, 2014 In the previous post I talked about how NaNoWriMo was helpful to me because it forced me to attempt something I had never done before. I wasn’t thrilled with losing that first year, but I was happy that I had …
If a Butterfly was largely finished by 2016, but I didn’t publish it then because I felt (for very good reasons) I had to complete and publish another book first. That other book, Aggravated, was finished this month, and was published on December 11, 2020. Now it’s Butterfly’s turn. Years ago, between 2012 and 2014, …