Tag: plotting

• Pants on fire

  

  Pants or Plot? Why does it have to be one or the other?

  K. M. Herkes

  May 4, 2016

  Authoring, Writing Advice

  contrarian, craft, frustration, plotting

• Naomi Kwan: Strong like Water

  

  Sometimes weakness is strength in disguise.

  K. M. Herkes

  January 31, 2016

  Authoring, Writing Advice

  characters, craft, plotting, writer’s bane, writer’s life

• Layered Narratives

  I recently spent some time and thought energy discussing the role of heroism in stories: (I Don’t Need Another Hero) and on my feelings about portraying protagonists as heroic when their actions are anything but good. Now I want to consider whole stories that do the same thing. Plots that create inaccurate mythology are even […]

  K. M. Herkes

  March 2, 2015

  Writing Advice

  always learning, craft, ethics, philosophy, plotting

• Review: Mystic & Rider by Sharon Shinn

  Disclaimer: Like most of my reviews of a sole title in a multi-book ecology, this review really covers elements common to the whole series, not merely the first book. The book is Mystic & Rider, and the series is called The Twelve Houses. Every so often, I revisit the backlist of authors I love. It […]

  K. M. Herkes

  December 26, 2014

  Book reviews

  books are food, craft, discrimination, plotting, reviews, social justice