Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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. There’s 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 I’d 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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  • Keep Trusting the Process

    A few weeks ago I printed the first 30 pages of my forth-coming novel, (tentatively titled) The Confessions of Adam, grabbed a pencil, and began…

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