Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • To What Might We Compare the Writing of a First Draft?

    Verily, Verily, I say unto you, the writing of a first draft is like hacking a path through a previously undiscovered forest. One observes and…

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  • Mood Work

    In 1998, not long after my father died, I read 1984 by George Orwell. A great novel, far from great timing. When we read a…

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  • First Readers

    As advance copies of The Confessions of Adam go out and are read, I've entered this strange new land. I’ve ceased to interact with the…

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  • The Last Read

    This week I finished reading, for the fourth time in six months, my debut novel The Confessions of Adam. This was my last reading. With…

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  • That

    As I complete the final edits of the manuscript which will be my debut novel, The Confessions of Adam, I thought that I’d share with…

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