Say what? You’ve heard of alternate realities. Tell me you’ve heard of alternate realities. Parallel universes? Quantum probabilities? Schroedinger’s Cat? ANYWHO, I’m talking about the concept that there are multiple possibilities in any situation — in the case I’m making, in a writing project. I…
At the critique group meeting the other day, we were talking about story arcs. In case you haven’t heard of them, they’re pretty much what they sound like: the arcs of stories. Story arcs are traditionally shown like this: Not very helpful. Better ones break…
You hafta start somewhere. In writing a book, I mean. The book hasta start, right? So where? And how? I wrote a post about that, some time ago. Reedsy has an excellent and comprehensive post on the subject. We can’t look for better guidance, though,…
