WCAD Walkthrough: Chapters 7 & 8
Subjects touched upon herein: spectral readers, repetitive word use, authorial voice, loadbearing sentences, foreshadowing, and stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
WCAD Walkthrough: Chapters 5 & 6
Subjects touched upon herein: contrast, point of view, theme, foreshadowing, and more stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
WCAD Walkthrough: Chapters 3 & 4
Now that we’re out of the Introducing You to the Whole World woods, chapters will get shorter, less scaffolding, more forward momentum of plot, which means I’ll have less to say about many of them, since the point of the walkthrough isn’t to recap the plot. Ergo, posts of less-epic length covering multiple chapters await ye.
WCAD Walkthrough: Chapter 2
Subjects touched upon herein: character voice, contrast, tension, description, symbolism, foreshadowing, and the meaning of cookies. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
WCAD Walkthrough: Chapter 1
Beginnings are loaded with decisions that affect everything that comes after, so Chapter 1 will probably get more attention than any other single chapter. Subjects touched upon herein: point of view, relevance, name dropping, F-bomb dropping, setting, and foreshadowing. Although I don’t think much can be said about any book’s first chapter that will “spoil” the rest
New beginning, new blog
WCAD is the first novel I’ve written since 2010. Five years is an eternity in writer years. Some writers can crank out twenty books in that time. That represents a whole career worth of books for most other writers. However you measure it, it’s a long time to be away. It was a learning period for