All eyes turned to Kickstarter after Brandon Sanderson’s record-breaking $41.8M project, but Robin has been running crowdfunding campaigns for her husband’s books for more than a decade (and earning more than 1.7M in the process).
Stories written in deep point of view are powerful and immersive. Readers forget they are reading and instead live vicariously through the POV character(s), entrenched in their worldview and unique traits, without any telltale author tags and filter words standing in their way.
Some writers have trouble adding enough conflict in their stories while others add too much. Conflict is necessary for good storytelling. Too little and you have no tension. Too much and your characters lose agency—the capability to choose a course of action that can change their outcome.