6.Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
http://www.rtjamison.com R.T. Jamison is a freelance technical writer. A two-time Pushcart nominee, Jamison’s fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Sou’wester, and ZYZZYVA, among other publications. Jamison is an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lit Camp Writers’ Conference, and the Community of Writers at ... Continue reading →