My favorite critique partner, the amazing Sara Marian, and I love to play games involving our characters. One of them is the old favorite, If Your Character Were A… He/She Would Be…,” often played with politicians, but we play with our characters. If Moder Zglaria…
Or purse, or reticule, or pocket. You know how the cops on cop shows go through the corpse’s pockets and find Clues? You can do that with your characters. Not just, you know, the dead ones. Or the undead ones, depending on what you write.…
Here in the midwest, we have a reputation for minding our own business. We don’t. We just tend not to ask direct questions. That doesn’t mean we won’t go ask somebody else, or pump somebody for information and then put two and two together. Sherlock…
