Plot Yoyos – You Can Never Go Back
Click to view video. A new video is out. In this installment, Jefferson and Gilbert discuss the problem of plot yoyos and explain how they sap the energy from your…
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One important lesson that shooting pool teaches us about writing novels.
After writing several books now, and being deep into the snake pit with the next one, I’m coming to see that (for me, anyway) writing a novel is a lot…
The geometry – and light – of story.
An interesting discussion cropped up on Reddit the other day, in which fellow fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan was wrestling with the writer’s creed that a good story is composed…
