This is the post about different types of climaxes that I mentioned last week. It’s closely related to reverse planning—or any kind of story planning, really—because how you plan or outline a story (if you work that way) depends a lot on what kind of climax you
Read more →This is my last blog post for 2022. (I always take the Tuesday between Christmas and New Year’s off, so next week will be an off-schedule Open Mic, and the count to the next one will reset on the first Tuesday of the year.) I asked a
Read more →Process feels unique and individual, because it is, just as the cottonwood tree in my front yard is unique and individual, different from all other cottonwoods and even more different from other species of trees. But just as all trees have roots and bark and perform photosynthesis
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