My best laid plans for an epic romantasy duology about a fugitive who's forced to partner with three rogue guards who are stealing her memories started with a vivid dream. Then scrambling out of bed to slap half a sticky notepad's worth of ideas on the wall. Of course, a plethora more notebooks with frantic plotting laid out the two books. Two. But a few of the characters missed that memo. I remember the night the ship drifted off-course. I'd just written chapter fifty-nine o

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Dark fantasy author Sarah Zimmerman muses on writing draft one.