Addy’s Addendums

Chapter analyses, writing tips, and the occasional something else

  • Characterization: Checklists and Procedure

    Characterization: Checklists and Procedure

    You know everything about your newest main character: age, hair color, favorite food, least favorite weather, two quirks, etc. When you go to write them,…

  • Building Habits: Guilt and Motivation

    Building Habits: Guilt and Motivation

    Your great novel idea strikes, you’ve planned an entire universe (including plots for five sequels), you decide to write every day until you get it…

  • Line Editing for Word Count: Necessity

    Line Editing for Word Count: Necessity

    You’re 10k over your word count budget, and you’ve developmental edited it until you’re out of development. What next? A line-level edit for (un)necessary phrases.

  • Prince for Hire

    Prince for Hire

    A prophetic conartist is tricked into a Competition to rule an empire.