THE WRITE STUFF THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE
Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles writer has a kitten named after a D&D demon!
What is your daily writing routine like?
► I think I’ve tried it all: outlining, fast drafting, note cards, whiteboard, three-act structure, five-act structure, reading the entrails of goats. But none of it has made the drafting process less agonising! Recently I’ve tried skeleton drafting and found that useful – at least I can get my mistakes over with quickly and get on to the revising stage, which is where the book starts to feel like something I can fix rather than something I am failing to properly make.