Craig had been writing books for about five years, although he had been creating web sites and all the content for them for twelve years before that. However, the two methods of writing were completely different. Content for a web page was typically five-hundred words in length, so it was important to get useful information across quickly and in a manner that made it easy to digest.
Writing a story in fifty to one hundred thousand words was something else. Stories in books are not meant to get the point across succinctly, they are designed to create an atmosphere which is relevant to the story being told. Rather like the music score in a film. That was Craig’s opinion anyway, but it was still evolving.
He sometimes joked with himself that he had become the writers’ equivalent of a goldfi
