I've talked before about the variable nature of writing work and productivity. It's a sad fact of this job that it can be hard to tell whether a particular task will take you ten minutes, three hours, a week, a month, or a year.

Last night I had one of the most productive ten minutes of my writing career thus far!

I've been working away on book 3 for some time, and while I had a general idea of where I was going, I wasn't entirely sure how the whole story was going to wrap u...