flavoracle:

Mental Exercise

Tiny Brain Me: “I have to nerf the abilities of this telepathic wizard in my books because otherwise his abilities will be too much of a liability when trying to create situations with narrative tension. There are just too many problems he could easily solve if I’m not careful.”

Average Brain Me: “Ugh, it bugs me so much how many plots essentially boil down to a misunderstanding or lack of information between characters. I mean, pretty much all of Shakespeare’s tragedies could have had happy endings if the characters just communicated better.”

Large Bain Me:*lightbulb*

Galaxy Brain Me: “Go my sassy brainy son. Destroy ALL my lazy tropes!!”

I’m always nervous to begin writing chapters with Shon, and then once I actually get started I remember how much I love writing chapters with Shon.