Category: Creative Process/Craft
Beginning
The work of writing looks exactly the same today as it did ten years ago. I go sit in a chair at a table and…
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I Can Do This
I remember the moment. I am standing in my study at my bookshelf. It is 1988 or 1989. I am in college, a sophomore. I…
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Waiting Work
A key skill in publishing your debut novel is the ability to wait well. Thereβs a lot of it. Waiting seems to be most of…
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What Were the Questions I Was Asking?
Earlier this month I asked myself why I wrote my debut novel, The Confessions of Adam (Bold Vision Books, 2019). I realized that Iβd thought…
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What Happened to December?
I read The Confessions of Adam out loud. On November 28th I went to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, with my friends Jim and Rita…
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