An eldritch clown walks into a writing workshop. She doesn't leave.

Chieqe opens every chapter of this book by saying the thing you weren't ready to hear. She's not a metaphor. She's a character, part jester, part cosmic horror, and the sparring partner S. R. Laubrea uses to put the writing-advice canon on trial.

Across sixteen 'heresies,' this book takes on the rules you've absorbed from workshops and craft books, Stein, Card, and the rest, seriously enough to know exactly what each one protects, then shows you exactly when it's worth breaking anyway.

The result is equal parts craft guide and character study: a clown who doesn't always win, an author who doesn't always agree with her, and a genuinely useful set of tools for anyone tired of writing advice that sounds like law.

S. R. Laubrea is an indie author of action-adventure scifantasy and a self-described literary deviant. She writes fiction that sets its own rules and follows them with total dedication, right up until the rule stops serving the story.

On Writing with an Eldritch Clown

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