My New Rule of Thumb

"So now, when I work on any story, from first draft to final revisions, I have a simple goal in mind: I just have to make it . . . slightly less awful than whatever I had before."
—Rhiannon Thomas*

Bookplate by Diana Chien

*Via Janice Hardy's Fiction University

 

Twisting Reader Expectations

"There is no formula for devising a great twist, because every plot is different and any number of things can work in a story. My trick for twisting my plot is pretty simple: Reader expectations...You want to give readers what they expect, but not in the way they expect it."

-Janice Hardy*

Bookplate art by Eugenia Timoshenko

Via D Biswas, Amlokiblogs