Category: Creative Process/Craft
Three At Once
I have always worked on one project at a time. I enjoy thinking deeply about a project and letting myself sink down into it. When…
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From Telling to Showing
Writers of fiction are consistently told, and rightfully so, to “show, don’t tell.” In other words, a reader wants to see the story unspool, not…
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Waterborne is Launched
My second novel, Waterborne: Chronicle of the Clan of Noah, is now fully released and in the hands of readers. As a writer, this is…
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Writing Like a Filmmaker
I attended an author fair this last Saturday and struck up a conversation with the author L. M. Helm. Luke is a writer of westerns…
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How (My) Characters Come to Be
At the moment, I’m fascinated with this part of the process: how do characters such as Ishmael, Huck, Mrs. Bridge, Bilbo Baggins, or Count Rostov…
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