This is an unauthorized mirror of the famous Limyaael/Lightning on the Wave/Arin i Asolde literary rants from LiveJournal. There's a metric shitload of advice, warnings, and witty commentary on just about every aspect of constructing a story - from character design, to worldbuilding, to avoiding cliches.

I scraped these off my former publisher's website, which I suspect will finally die sometime in 2021 (the company itself has apparently been defunct since 2018).

Use what you can, discard the rest, and remember Cherryh's Law:

"Never follow a rule off a cliff." —C. J. Cherryh