In my travelogue it sometimes is... not important, but for flow to skip days at a time in my story. I find it generally easy to fast forward several hours such as what I did here —— The campground was a muddy reminder of the night...

Currently editing a first draft and realizing, yet again, what a humbling task that is. In the heat of that first write, I was thrilled with every word. Thought every other paragraph was sheer genius. Yes, I know--that's never true, but...

I have been researching for the book I'm working on. I'd love to hear everyone's take on this subject. I sometimes wonder if I haven't researched myself out of the plot.