A fourteen year archive of blogposts on the craft of writing fiction.
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Subscribe nowDelta 2660 landed in Baltimore a few minutes after 11AM. This was the first time I’d ever landed in Baltimore. I took my cell phone…
Read MoreWhat is the measure of a writer’s success? Is it placement of a short story in a lit mag? Obtaining an agreement with an agent?…
Read MoreWe just spent a week in India visiting orphans in such places as Bangalore and Puliangudi. During the trip I wrote in my travel journal…
Read MoreI wrote the first pages of the first draft of The Confessions of Adam after a stressful evening at a church leadership meeting. I recall…
Read MoreDisclaimer: Like starting a writing group, or attending a writers’ conference, earning a writing degree can be a terrific way to procrastinate and avoid the…
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