As my regular readers know, I’ve been spending a considerable amount of my reading time re-reading old books (i.e. books I had already read at least once). This has been a fun experience, and I’ve shared most of it with you on this blog. Among others, I’ve covered Mistborn, the Dresden Files and most notable (with respect to this post): Old Man’s War.
» Read moreLast week I posted about using a conflict matrix to figure out stuff that needs to happen in your story. I’ve been working on mine for the past several days (11 significant characters = 110 motivations), and I’ve made a number of observations that could be helpful.
» Read moreI am currently working on the outline of my 9th book, and I’ve hit something of a bump in the outlining process. The primary conflict of the story is crystal clear to me, and both the beginning and the ending of the story are pretty solid. But how I’m supposed to get from this beginning to the end, let’s just say I haven’t quite figured it out.
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