Category: complications

  • Wodehouse’s Traps: How he hints at the complications to come

    On Monday I chatted about complications and, because Wodehouse is such a complication-y dude, there’s more to talk about. As I read more Wodehouse, I find it’s pretty easy to spot what’s going to be a trap for the characters. (Sure, there’re one or two surprises that you can’t see coming–like Monty’s tattoo in The Luck of…

  • Trouble on Your Hands: Complications

    You know how they tell you creating complications is a good thing in writing a story? Challenge your characters? Well, Wodehouse is The Master. I remember thinking this way back when I read The Code of the Woosters. Now I’m reminded of his skill in The Luck of the Bodkins. In this funky love larger-than-triangular-geometric-pattern,…