All structured out?

I spend a lot of time—arguably too much—thinking about story structure and planning. I have spent at least tens of hours on this. That includes tight big structures like three act structure, five act structure, snowflake, palindrome, Dan Harmon's Story Circle, and looser structures like Trey

Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective

This post uses excerpts from Ward Arc X (Eclipse) chapter 1, from Game of Thrones chapter 5, "Galveston Bay, 1826" by Eddie Chuculate, "An Envelope" by Hannah Lee Kidder, "Division by Zero" by Ted Chiang, and "State Change" by Ken Liu. Minor

How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)

I have a bad habit as a writer: I am not mean enough to my protagonists. I challenge them, but I have rarely made it personal. I have rarely made it serious enough that they have to do something they would rather not. I do all of these things at

Things I've learned about Across the Obelisk at 14 hours

I've put ~14 hours into Across the Obelisk in the last week and have learned a few things from that time: 1. When a piece of Equipment has an extra, separate framed picture in the top left, that's showing you where/how to get the equipment.

Competition in board games vs. video games

I notice I have more often played competitive board games with my friends than competitive video games. In college, we played competitive board games fairly often. We played Settlers of Cataan once in a while, Terraforming Mars once or twice, Carcasonne (a personal favorite) when we had time, King of