I like it when transformation stories key into what is going through a character’s mind after they’ve changed. The stories I’ve been writing haven’t called for much of that, and it’s something I would like to do more with in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the days when “Class Warfare” was getting started (four and a half years before the date this page was posted!) I wasn’t sure how exactly to characterize Ken. I realized UTC had an unfortunate pattern of using straight-up sociopaths[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While plotting out the falling action for the end of this chapter, I made a list of all the important points that needed to be established and shown. Where were certain people? What is the next step for their character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all the hard pages to make in this chapter, this one was hard in a unique way. Over the past few years, due to the rising number of real-life violent school tragedies in my country, I’ve become extremely sensitive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I tried to make this scene as not-cheesy as possible. The “and they all get along now” ending trope is difficult to get just right without the writer coming across as a Pollyanna. It was, however, important to me that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…