The Mom Test and "Tell me About Your Story." (A blog post)

[aldersprig]

I'm working on two stories right now - one for Mobbing Midnight, an anthology of Crow stories, and one for Queers Destroy Sci-Fi. Both are in draft form, and I'm flailing a bit about both, as is normal.

And then I got on the phone with my mom. I was telling her about Crow Cage, my story for Mobbing Midnight... and I started to find places, just

Comments

[cluudle]

Absolutely. This is why I have writer friends.

[kiarrith]

i definitely do this when writing or planning or just trying to figure the shape of a thing out better. explain it to a 3rd party. usually in text/im.