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…
Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. With this chapter, it was all about racing to catch up with the publishing schedule, while assaulted on all sides by unavoidable crap things. So on top of a hectic work schedule, I Read more…