I previously wrote in A weekly writing review about adopting a weekly creative writing review. It turns out that this doesn't work for the pace that I write at. I write a sentence or two every day, with occasional bursts of paragraphs or pages. At this pace, I
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
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
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
Some goals come with obvious lag measures. For example: 1. Goal: Reach a body weight of 165 lbs. Lag measure: My body weight. 2. Goal: Scale my business (income) to $1500 MRR. Lag measure: Recurring revenue—monthly, annual, whatever. There measures are obvious in the sense that the goal is