Category: Creative Process/Craft
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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Writing at Papa’s House and Yours
Monday morning, instead of logging on to my computer in my home office and dialing in for my first meeting of the day, I made…
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Percy’s Six Elements of Story: Delay Gratification and Withhold Information
[This is the sixth and final part in a series of posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story…
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