I’ve been hard on Flo lately, so I gotta admit, reading this scene and this particular turn in it couldn’t have been too easy for her, since the setting is based on the sort of apartment where she was living […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes you need to pit your hero against a superior tactician, maybe with the additional advantage of surprise. Your hero might develop tactics of their own by the end of the story, but handling that initial encounter can be tricky: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, let’s spell it out here: Gamergate was obviously fresh in Flo’s and my minds when we put this scene together. However, Shanna doesn’t mention names for a reason: this is a more general social-media-based toxicity that the intervening years […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyway, before this sequence became about Flo and me yelling at each other, it was first about getting all the readers to yell at Shanna! This is a tangled topic I can talk about from many perspectives, but let’s focus […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was the chapter, more than any other, where I came closest to leaving Guilded Age. I don’t think much of that behind-the-scenes drama is reflected in the work, except in the sense that Flo’s and my contributions here are not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
