Character DevelopmentI hid in the bedroom at my own housewarming, certain I had ruined it, and a guest found me eating leftover cheese and told me everybody was having a wonderful time. He was not being kind. He was reporting.
Character DevelopmentI kept watching people I care about hit the same wall for years without trying the door. Then I looked at my own life and saw it there too. Thirty-three years, and I called it a career.
Character DevelopmentA book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
Character DevelopmentMy father died with a one-bedroom apartment filled floor to ceiling and two full storage units, while being broke. I was three thousand miles away, so I told the apartment manager to donate all of it. Nobody objected, and nobody…
ADHDI wrote this immediately after finding out I was ADHD, before the autobiography. It came out of a real church I attended and eventually stopped attending. I was baptized there and then simply stopped going, and I never told anybody…
Character DevelopmentI wrote this for specific friends who could not work out why relationships kept going wrong. The credential behind it is not on the sales page: eight years photographing performers meant thousands of hours of unguarded conversation with women backstage,…
Character DevelopmentI held this idea for decades before writing it down, and what I was fighting was not doubt. It was the social conditioning that tells you which beliefs are permitted. I was raised Church of Christ and I still am…
Character DevelopmentA private joke between two friends in 1995 became an international observance in 2002. I drove to a pirate faire for it once, in the worst costume present.
Character DevelopmentSettling the solar system is not a distance problem. It is an energy problem, a radiation problem, a gravity problem, and above all a supply chain problem, and the one that decides everything gets the least attention.
Character DevelopmentA sunk cost is any resource you cannot get back, and letting it influence the next decision is the fallacy. How to spot it in your own work, how to tell it apart from persistence, and how writers use it…
Character DevelopmentJules Verne wrote three novels across eight years that turn out to be one story, with returning characters, honoured consequences, and a timeline that does not add up.
Character DevelopmentDeliberate human burial goes back at least a hundred thousand years. At Sungir, two children were buried with ten thousand ivory beads, each about an hour of work, by people living at the edge of their food supply.
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