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Script contest reading time again. Tip of the day: character intros offer a chance to slip a *little* something extra in for actors. That's not the same thing as inserting the character's C.V. or their therapist's notes that week.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Serializing Sleep of the Unjust, my 7th (and last, and weirdest) novel, week-by-week on Patreon. The other 6 are still there too, for now. I will be changing from monthly sub to selling by the collection when I finish this one. www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

DANGER--pointless story theory enclosed Posited: in order for sympathetic antagonists to work, unsympathetic (or at least LESS sympathetic) antagonists must exist to compare them to, not just flawed protagonists. Not necessarily in the same story, although that certainly works.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on the verge of setting up a chess timer I can just slap when I feel stuck in a plot crux. If nothing comes to me in 20 minutes, I gotta move on.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Tempted to work this into the next job interview.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Job interview responses I'm perilously close to using: "Where do you see yourself in five years?" "In the same chair I'm in right now, doing what I always do. If you're lucky I'll be doing it for you."

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Something I just wrote over at the metazone that's actually pretty good for this hour of the morning: Internal conflict happens in the space between what a character wants and what a character needs. You can write a perfectly functional story without it, but never a great one.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

I was at most a frequent guest, never a regular, over at the place with almost no character(s) in its name or anything else. I figure I can do that here, right? Hope to see more writers here soon-ish.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment