Make Yourself the Villain

This post was originally part of The Hart Compound Blog Tour on the #AmWriting community blog.

In editing the stories for my recent release The Hart Compound, I struggled to figure out just how to make one particular story sing. It was tricky. I was trying to portray a particularly emotional time when I did some particularly shitty things, and I couldn’t quite get the right emotions to come out.

One brief line in this post about storytelling from Jeff Goins made me realize what I was doing wron...