Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. And we return. Theoretically this is simply chapter 14. Really, though, it’s chapter 1 of the second story arc. If the first arc was about introducing the world and Kay getting caught up Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. ‘Apex Predator’ marks the big finale for the first ‘story arc’ of A Day of Faces. If this was a book, it’d be the end of part one. If it were a comic, Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. After ‘Infection’s stealthy, heist-like shenanigans, ‘Lineage’ turns things up to 11 with a full-on shoot-out. Something that’s become a bit of a stylistic theme of A Day of Faces is having little mini Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Although there’ve been a couple of action-ish moments in previous chapters – the glimpsing of the rooftop fight, and Cal’s unfortunate encounter with Kay’s dad – those have been either mostly off-screen or Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. This is one of those chessboard chapters, by which I mean it’s all about positioning the pieces just right. It’s setting up the series finale, which inherently involves a bit of exposition. The Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. The previous chapter was called interlude but actually raised a whole bunch of questions. This chapter acts as more of a natural pause, following on from the events of Nurture but taking a Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Unexpected narrative shift! Unexpected not just for readers but also for me, as this was a rather late addition to the story. There’s a broader story going on in the background of ADoF Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. The specifics of the fight in this chapter remained fluid even as I wrote it. Originally the actual fighting was going to be more protracted and ‘actiony’, rather than a mostly accidental flailing Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Interesting thing here is that it’s the first time that I changed something after publishing. The mention of ‘slushy romance novels’ was originally about kids adventure books. It felt wrong when I wrote Read more…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. Cal was originally going to be entirely delirious, and remain injured for a long while. The idea of having the injury fall off along with the wings came about during the writing. That Read more…