This Is No Bloodless Art

Crossposted to Deadline Dames.

Today, dear Reader, I will get philosophical. My apologies in advance.

Last night I was working on the third Strange Angels book. I'd revised as far as one of the hidden hinges in the story–let me make an instructive little detour here.

In every story there are visible and hidden "hinges"–places where the particular bits of the story "hang," for structure. The visible hinges are crisis points and revelations, easy enough to spot. The hidden hinges, however, are harder