Memos to self

[larryhammer]

• Just because you spent 100 pages searching for a place the plot can go does not mean the reader should too.
  
• When you have a shapeshifter, do not use "shift" to mean "move slightly" -- it's ambiguous.
  
• If your werewolf is part of a pack, it must be as present in the story as his family. A pack is a second family and a were lives in the tension between the two.
  
• If you put a troll in the basement, you need to know what a troll is.
  
• If you write "that's just whack," readers will correct it to "wack." If you write "that's just wack," readers will correct it to "whack." You can't win here.
  
• Realism is no excuse for losing narrative momentum.

[Poll #840222]
---L.