Recently, I’ve become familiar with a delightful new term – “The idiot plot.” Basically, an idiot plot is a summary term for a story’s plot that only works or happens the way it does because everyone involved behaves like an idiot. The consequences can range from not seeing an obvious solution to their idiotic behavior […]
After the last week and my ruminations on the hurt I’d caused through my real-life actions, I did something I’d never done in my life last night: I prayed. I made an appeal, noting out loud that life never works like this but nevertheless begging a higher power to turn back the clock so that […]
The comments I got back after my blog about father figures was very interesting. More than one reader was surprised I have a good relationship with my father. Readers have, publicly or privately, told me that some of the dialogue could have been taken verbatim from some of their own arguments with their parents, and […]
A ways back, I had commented about tropes and lines I tend to re-use over and over in different stories, and how a lot of authors tend to follow patterns and tropes in their stories. I think a lot of authors do this, but I also have started to develop a theory based on this. […]
If I’m committing to still writing stories about people going through high school, I need to keep a few things in mind. The first, which I’ve talked about a fair bit over the years, is how to frame everything from the dialogue to the sexuality. My dialogue sits firmly in the camp of “what we […]
Bashful Scribe 