Every relationship should prepare for the hard times when they’re in the good times. I think that once a relationship is established, we should write letters to each other, and to our future selves. The letters should then be sealed and opened if it ever feels as though everything is over. Letter 1: This letter […]
Readers like a vicarious sense of accomplishment through characters. It’s satisfying to see characters we root for suffer and struggle with a goal in mind and then reach that goal, usually having cost them tangible or intangible things. Stories I particularly enjoy include aspects of being forced to choose between the most complicated of choices […]
Hey you. Teen me. It’s me. Older you. Almost 30, but not quite. A decade’s more time and experience, but I am the person you will become. You’re about to start on a weird section of your life. Or at least, it’s going to take you to places you didn’t know you’d go and put […]
Monadic Storytelling 