Why does planning work so well on paper?

Sometimes, technology just gets in the way

I’m in the final season of Tales from the Triverse, the weekly serial I’ve been writing and publishing since 2021. That’s three and a half years and 340,000 words. It’s a big project, and I’m acutely aware of the tiny target I need to hit if I’m going to land the ending.

Astronaut Michael Collins wrote about the challenges of calculating the return traje…