L.A. Garnett – Author

One of the things I am most proud of from 2024 is the dedication I showed to my writing in the last six or so months of the year. Before 2024, I can confidently say that I wasn’t really writing consistently. I had a draft for The Spiraling, but it had sat in my Google Drive for months, relatively untouched. I had a quite a few ideas and snippets, beginning paragraphs and sections for stories that will likely never see the light of day, but I wasn’t really writing.

After I decided to just go for it, and publish The Spiraling, I told myself that I was going to change it up. I was a writer now, and my habits needed to reflect that.

I’ve never been very good at habits. I never really got the whole idea – nothing has ever been automatic for me. Every time I do something, it’s because I’ve reminded myself I needed to go it. Go for a walk, make coffee, brush my teeth – those are all actions I choose every day to take. So getting to the point where writing, something hard, became semi-automatic seemed like an enormous task.

I started little by little – really, that’s all I have time for anyway. I get about an hour a day, maybe two at most, of free writing time. I use that the most effective way I can. Right now, it’s almost entirely going to editing Tunsealior Saga Book 2. I’ve dabbled with a few short stories here and here, but again, I’m striving for consistency and efficiency. That means sitting down and doing it, not dilly-dallying and figuring out what to work on.

It’s worked for me so far. I wrote the first draft of the second Tunsealior book in six months – that is HUGE, seeing as it took be 8 years to get the first book into a legible state. I’m proud of the work I’ve done, and I’m excited to show you more of what I’ve been working on.