Creating the Story Occasion
A Defining Sentence
Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling
Welcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories.
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Creating Mystery and Dread:
To Prologue or not to Prologue
Wish Lists, Finding a Fit, and Timing the Market
On Building a Client List
16 months of being a Literary Agent
An Interview!
The Details Cannot Be Ignored
Crafting characters through the senses
Inhabiting Character (Part 2)
The use of Free Indirect Style to create Intimacy and Empathy
Inhabiting Character (Part 1)
The use of Free Indirect Style to create Intimacy and Empathy
A Few Thoughts on Flash Endings
Escalation, Reckoning, and Metaphor
No Your Story Isn't Real Life
Break the veneer of perfection
Building Unique Characters
Through actions most people would never do