The Biggest Mistake Made When Writing a Crucial Chapter

Currently I am reading Spell or High Water, book 2 in Scott Meyer’s “Magic 2.0” series.  The novel series is a best seller, and not only that is a fantastic trilogy of novels that I highly recommend.  However, I reached a point in the novel that was a crucial chapter, a chapter where a lot of

Giving a Protagonist a Hidden Motivation

Recently I have been in the middle of writing the first installment of a new series entitled The Five Rims.  The first book is titled The Last Terran, and my protagonist is definitely out of the ordinary. Guillermo March is a former security officer with the C’Tuulian Planetary Police Force, the only Terran to work for them,