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LJ

A blogpost: the struggle getting across the finish line with my latest novel - that was 6 years in the making.

blog.ljcohen.net/2025/01/litan

"And isn't leveling up critical to the creative process? I'm not in competition with any other author or book out there in the world. I'm here to work harder and write better than my past self. To grow as a creator. To fail better in the immortal words of Samuel Beckett. "

blog.ljcohen.netLitany For A Broken WorldCover* for Litany For A Broken World After six years of work ... After 3 (or maybe 4) false starts where I discarded 20,000 words and began ...

@LJ Wow! I'm floored both by what happened to you and what changed internally over those 6 years of working on this one! Congrats on staying the course and finishing! I'm really intrigued and will likely pre-order it.

@madgeface thank you! I hope you enjoy it!