The Hostile Witness Method: Interview Your Protagonist Like a Prosecutor
A character development exercise for the moment when you know exactly what your protagonist does — and have no idea why they do it.
Read the essay →Essays on character, interrogation, and the slow work of the novel — written at the desk behind Khotan Studios, usually after arguing with a protagonist.
A character development exercise for the moment when you know exactly what your protagonist does — and have no idea why they do it.
Read the essay →One drafts prose with you. One interrogates your characters with you. An honest, fact-checked map of which is which — and for whom.
Read the comparison →A brilliant entertainment platform — and three walls every working novelist hits: training terms, no manuscript export, no canon management.
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