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Craft Writing Posts
The Craft Writing Posts will try to tackle some of the writing choices that I make while writing both the novels themselves and the series as a whole. Hopefully they will provide you with a small snapshot of why those decisions were made and what they are trying to achieve in the writing itself. If you like to write then the intent is that this will help inspire some of your own efforts.
Earned Payoff vs. Constant Escalation
Why the most powerful moments in fiction are the ones you have to wait for, and how the relentless escalation trend undermines them.
Multiple Timelines
The risks and rewards of weaving multiple timelines through a single narrative, and why the payoff is worth the patience.
Show, Don’t Tell — Or Show and Tell
Why interior monologue is what makes characters live, and what ‘show, don’t tell’ gets wrong when taken to the extreme.
Foundational Choices
On the foundational choices a writer makes at the start of a novel — alternative worlds, multiple timelines, character archetypes — and how they constrain and liberate the story that emerges.
Chapter Construction
On mapping out ten chapters ahead at a time, why a full book outline would hurt the story, and how chapter construction shapes pacing and reader trust.
Writer's Block
On writer's block as a signal: when to brute-force through, when to step away, and when the silence means the chapter isn't right yet.
Sonder
On seeing every passerby as a complete person, the opposite of the NPC mindset, and how that awareness builds richer characters and a fuller life.
World-Building
On world-building as a two-way creative funnel between the novel series and the website, and how storyboards can reveal the hidden corners of Eloria.