In this excerpt from his workshop, “Beginnings and Middles Without End” author Jonathan Wood takes you through THE four ways a character’s plan can fail to achieve their goal (and which is the juiciest way).

Jonathan Wood is the author of 8 novels (The Hero series, The Dragon Lords series writing as Jon Hollins, and City of Iron and Dust as J.P. Oakes). His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Chizine, and has been collected in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Year One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, and the Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures among others. When not writing, he spends far too much time playing videogames and sharing memes on Facebook. He can be found online at jonathanwood.substack.com where he writes weekly free fiction.