A fourteen year archive of blogposts on the craft of writing fiction.
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Subscribe nowIn order to do something well, we must not think of it as separate from the rest of our life. It must not be sacred,…
Read MoreI have come to believe there is a lever that drops putting a certain law into motion when I sit down to write. The simple…
Read MoreThe best stories take a turn at some point, early on. There lies some element, a phrase, a texture, that strikes the reader as so human,…
Read MoreNo one has a time-management problem. The playing field is level. We all have the same number of hours in our day. How we use…
Read MoreOne discipline of writing that is very difficult is developing the invaluable ability to get an unfinished idea down on paper. It is so tempting (and…
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