A. O. Henderson

Cultivated Curiosity

A. O. Henderson is a writer of science-fiction and fantasy novels, and horror short stories. She is currently working on her second novel, a second world fantasy about a prophetic conartist attempting to stop one of his prophecies from killing his mentor.

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From the Addendums

  • Characterization: Checklists and Procedure

    You know everything about your newest main character: age, hair color, favorite food, least favorite weather, two quirks, etc. When you go to write them, however? An absolute mess. You know your checklist. You don’t know your character.

  • Building Habits: Guilt and Motivation

    Your great novel idea strikes, you’ve planned an entire universe (including plots for five sequels), you decide to write every day until you get it done, and then… Day three. You fail. Let’s try this again.

  • Line Editing for Word Count: Necessity

    You’re 10k over your word count budget, and you’ve developmental edited it until you’re out of development. What next? A line-level edit for (un)necessary phrases.