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Ashlee LhamonAll good stories are alike; each bad story is bad in its own way
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A dystopian fantasy epic, the first in a seven part series
Battle of Mühldorf, by Unknown (1334)
Back in 2007, when I was 18, I gave my dad the first chapter of what I expected to by my first novel. It was going to be an epic YA dystopia, 350,000-words over five book, set in the far future, where...
So You’re Having Some Feelings About Your Plot
The Prince Asked Who She Was, Edmund Dulac (1911)
This is a tie-in to my previous post, Hans Gruber vs. Holly Gennaro . . . though it’s not a particularly good tie-in because I’m not going to reference Die Hard at all. But I do want to dis...
To All The Girls I've Fridged Before
Spoilers ahead: The movies mentioned in the subtitle
In my last post, Hans Gruber vs Holly Gennaro, I talked a little bit about fridging, and after a friend of mine reached out with some concerns re: what counts as fridging and what doesn’...
Hans Gruber vs Holly Gennaro
Why do people like Die Hard?
This question is asked absolutely sans sneer. Die Hard is so good it makes me want to resurrect the dumb slang of the 10s (amazeballs! awesomesauce! on fleek! bacon?) But it’s also among a very, very long list...
The First Chapter Trap
Let’s just cut to the chase here: the amount of things a first chapter has to do is impossible.
It’s your most crucial point of initial setup. In it, you have to establish your characters, their occupations, motivations and goals, and the...
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Editor at Strange Horizons. Published in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Apex, Salamander, Tractor Beam, Grist, Massachusetts Review (etc). Author of Last Lynn Standing, a novel about evil celebrity clones, due out in 2028 from Grand Central Publishing.
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