A fourteen year archive of blogposts on the craft of writing fiction.
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Subscribe nowHe reads Robert Alter’s translation, The Five Books of Moses. Seeking to understand the literary qualities of the Hebrew––a language he studied for three weeks…
Read MoreHe writes as if composing a letter to a friend. Head bowed over his laptop, words drop like spring rain, silence but for the soft…
Read MoreRead poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps…
Read MoreMonday morning, instead of logging on to my computer in my home office and dialing in for my first meeting of the day, I made…
Read More[This is the sixth and final part in a series of posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story…
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