Grids and Trees

So last weekend, I got the first batch of editorial revision requests for “The Dark Lord’s Daughter.” They are reasonable and doable, and I need to get right to work on them. Naturally, I spent the entire week…reading how-to-write books. It’s my way of settling in before I start work, and it always turns up something interesting, and occasionally something useful.

In this batch, the only one that seemed both interesting and potentially useful was The Story Grid, by Shawn Coyne published in...