becoming a woman: Barbie and the Last Unicorn
On giving and receiving critique
On the want vs the need
Aya Maguiren//d, where the crawdads sing, story structure, writing, want vs need, the lion king, the little mermaid, lord of the rings, pig, the power of the dog
The Promise of the Premise
shhhh it's a secret (the secret is narrative responsibility)
say it’s the journey if you want but at least take the integral
the fever and the resolution
the Alchemist and the Green Knight
on making every character matter
okay aya what did your beta readers tell you?
on surviving the beta read
on changing the primary tension
my tastes have changed but I don't know what my new tastes are
sometimes the highest stakes are also the smallest
writing a book means letting go of everything that book never became
that's not a novel idea but it could be
well i really didn't like the Green Kight
i haven't stopped singing songs from Inside since the moment i heard them
i have eight bazillion things to do already so obviously i should be blogging, too