Jeff said a lot of great things the other night (we’ll broadcast and also podcast the show very soon), but the one thing I remember is he said: “I believe in velocity.” I had asked him how he kept track of The Renegades, a mulitlayered, complex book. Novels, in general, are very messy. So many pages, so many characters, so many things to keep track of.

Jeff said he keeps his chapters in one big file, so if he has to do a search, it’s all there, in one file. He also said he wrote five pages a day, 25 pages a week and in six months he has a book-length manuscript, so there isn’t enough time to really forget what he wrote.

Such a simple tip and yet invaluable–for me, anyway, who has been known to take, well, years to work on a project.

My new mantra: I believe in velocity.