Another Way To Think About "Conflict" and "Stakes" In Your Fiction

Last week, I was an instructor at the Lambda Literary Workshop, and it was an utter privilege to get to work with some brilliant writers whose bravely inventive writing gave me a new faith in the future of queer speculative fiction. 

While I was at the workshop, I gave a craft talk about "queering conflict and stakes" in fiction-writing. And since I'm still in the middle of traveling, on my way to Worldcon in Glasgow, I'm turning that talk into this week's newsletter.

First of all, I have to sta...