August 2017
Summer has made its presence known in the last two months, and as the sun becomes a deadly laser, we take shelter in the cool glades of the internet. This time our best posts were weighted towards characters and their arcs, from avoiding boring protagonists to bringing characters together to redemption arcs for villains. And of course, a regular reminder that most romance tropes are terrible.Five Common Romance Mistakes
June 30th, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi
Five Magic Items That Break Their Stories
July 22nd, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi
Seven Ways to Bring Characters Together
July 14th, 2017 by Chris Winkle
Blades in the Dark Is Innovative, but Difficult to Run
July 1st, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi
Five More Dualities That Can Replace Good and Evil
July 7th, 2017 by Chris Winkle
Five Tropes That Make a Protagonist Boring
July 29th, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi
122 – Redeeming a Villain
June 11th, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle and Wes Matlock
A Glamour Far Far Away
July 17th, 2017 by Oren Ashkenazi and Lillian Ripley