INTRODUCTION: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

Igniting the ReachesI’m a very organized writer–insanely organized, one might say, and we’ll get back to that in a moment. I take extensive notes before I start plotting, and I do very detailed plots (usually in the range of 5-15,000 words per plot, though a few have been much longer).

Occasionally I hear a writer say something along the lines of, “My hero went off in a direction I didn’t expect.” I shake my head: my heroes don’t do anything of the sort. It turned out, however, that they could still surprise me. continue reading…