New Podcast Up: Hidden Characters In Alexandria

In this episode we discuss an interesting point of characterization we like to call “hidden characterization”. This is a kind of dramatic irony where the character’s actions do not match up with their external motivation for doing the action. It has been used infrequently in fiction and in television as in novels such as “The

Plot Devices: Constructing a Novel

This week I have been plotting out my new novel tentatively titled The Painful Best.  In the process of creating characters, tying the plot threads together and creating some terrible red herrings for my readers to follow, I have been going through some new and interesting things to do to my new novel to make it

Plot Development and the Sociological Conundrum

As some of you know I am a huge fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead.  Some of you who do not watch the show might be saying “Eeww.  But it’s about zombies, right?”  Don’t judge.  I have watched the show since the pilot episode, and the reason I love it so much is not because