Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • If You’re Bored

    If you’re bored, no…if you’re not thoroughly riveted by the piece you’re writing, it’s not ready for a reader. And until this criteria is met,…

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  • That Counter-Cultural Somersault

    I've concluded that it's not the writing that’s difficult. What is difficult is making and maintaining space in our lives in which creativity can occur.…

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  • Crush or Commitment?

    I have a long-form fiction project I’d like to discuss for a moment. Let’s call it Fabula. (Fabula is Latin for story.) When I’m working…

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  • Experiment: A Beta Reading Group

    It is key to the late-stage development of any piece of long-form creative writing to engage beta readers. These are individual readers who read widely…

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  • Quote and Comment, Bradbury

    Read 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…

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