A new commission story has been posted! Thank you to the commissioner for being responsible and communicative, especially in my time of dining and dashing, as my previous blog highlights. Slight spoilers are ahead for the story in the post below, but to give you relevant context, it’s vaguely a teacher-student story. Sometimes, writing these […]
Sigh. This one wasn’t fun to write. There’s an inherent risk outlined in any business where you’re trying to put food on the table. Back in the old days, stores had everything behind a counter with the store clerk between the customer and the goods. The customer would ask for an item, and the clerk […]
This week, on my Patreon, I have released the fully edited version of Follow the Leader! As with all of my edits, it comes with a functional table of contents with buttons for each chapter, a swanky title page made as always by my website editor, and spelling, grammar, and flow fixes. Given the state […]
Let’s begin bluntly with the point of this blog: I worry sometimes that my obsession with building stories with depth and plots that pay out long-term is working against me. If you’ve read more than one of my longform stories, you’ve unquestionably noticed by now that I like to bring something up in one chapter […]
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 […]
Bashful Scribe 