Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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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  • 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. There’s a lot of it. Waiting seems to be most of…

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