On "issue" stories

 I have been really... disconnected lately.  There's just a lot going on (job/family/overall mundane matters) and I'm not on top of my game right now.  So, sorry if I've not been responding to things in a timely manner.

Anyway, I was planning to write an essay-thing on plot to complement the ones on structure, but then Things Happened as usual and I decided to write about this instead.

( Fire Emblem, meet the Lifetime Channel )

Anyway, this is of course all my opinion, offered as free advice, etc.  Happy writing, and if someone writes that Ilyana story I might even read it.