Journal
Notes on structure
Craft essays on how books hold together — arcs, escalation, promise and payoff, and the particular problems of writing a story a chapter at a time. Aimed at people who are mid-draft and stuck.
First essays are being written now
This section is deliberate rather than decorative: the fastest way to be useful to writers I have not met is to be useful in public. What is queued:
- Escalation curves, and why chapter ninety is never the problem
- Promise and payoff across two hundred chapters
- Power creep is a stakes problem, not a numbers problem
- Revising a live serial without stopping the release schedule
- What technical books taught me about pacing fiction
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