A fourteen year archive of blogposts on the craft of writing fiction.
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Subscribe nowIt is our nature to compare. It’s undeniably human. We compare everything. We compare restaurants, movies, cars, and jobs. We compare this weekend to last,…
Read MoreWriting is very difficult for me right now. More difficult than normal. It’s hard to focus, to give writing the priority, the time, the energy.…
Read MoreVerily, Verily, I say unto you, the writing of a first draft is like hacking a path through a previously undiscovered forest. One observes and…
Read MoreIn 1998, not long after my father died, I read 1984 by George Orwell. A great novel, far from great timing. When we read a…
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