What Happens When You Let a Character Make a Bad Choice on Purpose I was about three chapters into a short story when I realized my protagonist was about to do something incredibly… Read more
The Characters I Accidentally Abandoned and What They Still Taught Me I found the file last week. Buried in a folder I hadn’t opened in maybe two years, there was a… Read more
I Stopped Trying to Sound Like a Real Author and My Writing Got Better I spent way too long trying to write like I thought writers were supposed to write. You know the feeling?… Read more
Writing Scenes I Know Will Never Make the Final Story (And Why I’m Doing It Anyway) Last week I spent two hours writing a conversation between my protagonist and her dead grandmother. It takes place in… Read more
I Tried Writing Without a Plot for 30 Days and Here’s What Actually Happened So there I was, stuck again. Just completely stuck. You know that feeling where you’ve got your document open, maybe… Read more
