The Prose Pilot
A writer offering not just guidance in shaping your narrative, but companionship in the wandering. Here, we honor the quiet doubts, the wild dreams, and the words that carry us through.
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- Aug 27, 2026
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OMG, Why Did You Do That?! (opens the original)
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What makes a character? Specifically, an MC (main character). <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1029" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vxGd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
I'm going back to square one. (opens the original)
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Here we go again.I’m going back to square one.I stopped writing what I thought was going to be my debut novel. While I’m disappointed, I think sometimes we can’t force what doesn’t want to be written. When we force the words onto the page, they don’t flow. They don’t fit. They just seem... wrong.I began writing Beneath the Spanish Moss in 2021. At first, it was just bits and bobs of ideas, paragraphs, sentences, scattered scenes, all very incomplete. But the story and the characters became so sp
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