Pretzels and Möbius Strips: On the Question of Plot Twists
When I was in junior high, I read Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy.” I absolutely loved it. I re-read it multiple times throughout the years,...
Reassembled: Dr. Frankenstein Just Called
It was the middle of 2019. I had a major event in September, and I’d been really hoping to finish my book and get it out in print by...
Keeping Characters Dynamic
One of the more frustrating things I encounter in television are characters who don’t learn from their mistakes, who don’t grow and...
Bland or Beautiful: Standing Out from the Crowd
Recently I’ve been entering some Goodreads giveaways, because, free books. Since ideally I’d like to get books I want to read, I check...
Guns-on-the-Wall
If a writer tailors their writing toward a reader, rather than writing something intended to be purely private, they need to keep the...
Precise or Purple: How Much Detail Is Too Much?
This is a hard question, because tastes differ a lot from writer to writer and from reader to reader. Between Hemingway and Melville is...