How to Betray Your Own Characters - Narrative Compression, Guilt, and the Importance of Emotional Backstory
Just under a week ago, Locktober ended (and I hope, therefore, No -vember - or whatever slightly tackier name we're giving it now - has started for a great many of my readers!) But with the end of October came, as it were, the ending of my free Reddit serial The Edge Olympics , which I've talked about a little chiefly in the context of Lysistrata . (Someone told me recently "nobody else writes Femdom like you do," and I wasn't sure I agreed, but I think, having written a sentence like that, they may've had a point...). I also posted about the announcement before I started the serialisation, and that I suspect gave away the fact the story was in fact already written. I have to write things out in advance because, as I was explaining to a friend recently, I am often at the mercy of the wildest inspirations and if a new idea sparks something off in my head I'm quite capable of dropping other things I'm working on to try and get something out there, som...