You came back for more? I’ll be gentle this time, since your eyes are probably still sore from all the abuse last week. (It was only yesterday for me, so mine are still chafed, too.) Subjects touched upon herein: story origins, structure, foreshadowing, and stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
Chapter 12 divorced 11, and 13 and 14 don’t want to be separated because they’re fornicating, so you get a triple shot this week. Brace yourself; it’s going to be a wordy one. Subjects touched upon herein: character arc, something in my eye, an overblown construction metaphor, flames on the side of my face, echoes, foreshadowing,
Chapter 11 is in solitary confinement because it’s a malefactor and I don’t want it corrupting the others. Subjects touched upon herein: bitchy chapters, spectral readers, working titles, bad kisses, a little foreshadowing, and a little stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
Subjects touched upon herein: insights, more description, more echoes, more foreshadowing, and more stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
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!
Subjects touched upon herein: contrast, point of view, theme, foreshadowing, and more stage-2 gardening. “HERE THERE BE SPOILERS” SIGN LOST IN BLOG MIGRATION!
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.
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!
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
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