BETH HUDSON

Pretzels and Möbius Strips: On the Question of Plot Twists

Bending an Ear: When to Listen to Writing Advice

Reassembled: Dr. Frankenstein Just Called

The End of the Word

Worldbuilding: Consumed by Cartography

Letting Your Book Baby Grow Up

Research: The Search for Squoozhfen

Agency: What Does It Do?

Where Are the Men?

No One Knows What It’s Like to Be the Bad Man

A Short History of My Short Stories

Primary or Secondary: Should Worlds Collide?

Balancing the Elements: The Circus of Juggling Proportions

Published Too Soon: Alas Poor Yorrick

Babbling About Blurbs

Update and Teaser

Echoes of Myth in Storytelling

World Building: Child's Play

Mental Illness: The Boogeyman in My Writing

How to Bake a Plot

A Journey through Writer's Block

How Do I Know if My Writing Is Good?

Experience: Food for the Pen

Writing “Right”: Is There One Way?

Keeping Characters Dynamic

What Are Stories For?

The Cost of Writing

Bland or Beautiful: Standing Out from the Crowd

Guns-on-the-Wall

Precise or Purple: How Much Detail Is Too Much?

Avoiding the Trope-osphere

Making Magic Real Part II: What Is It Like?

Making Magic Real, Part I: Consistency

Writing Combat if You're Not a Fighter

Themes: What Are They, Really?

I Wrote It, But I Hate It

Character Vs. Narrator Epic Smackdown

Workshopping: The Sound and the Fury

The Closet of Lurking Ideas

Doing My Homework: How to Write What I Don't Know

Characters: Paper or Flesh?

Creative Haunting: Art, Music, and Writing

Creative Perspiration

Rejectomancy

Dark, Angsty, Cynical

Writing with Depression

An Introvert's Voice

Learning Curve

It's Easier to Write than Promote

One Month Out