... sounds interesting

interestingSo I was like deep, like knee-deep in The Isles series, and I already had books one and two were, like, out in the world while two was in, like, ARC, but for all intents and purposes, ready for publication, ready to go.

And I was working on book three and just kept hitting a wall, and I was so frustrated with it, and I was just ready to take an ax to my computer.

And I was talking to one of my gal friends, and she's like, "Well, why don't you just write something different?" And I was like, "What? What are you talking about? I have to-- I have a deadline.

I need to do this." And she's like, "Okay." She's like, "Well, do a short story or do a comic.

Just do something as a palate cleanser to get your brain, like, out of this funk, and then maybe you can come back to it." And best advice ever because I sat down, like had my little notebook out 'cause I prefer to do all my outlining and an initial, like, scene mapping, like, analog style, so I can really visually move my little Post-its around and see it.

Yeah.

Maybe you can speak to s- to this, Alicia.