Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • Leave It Out

    Think about the last time you told someone a story. Let’s say it was about your trip this winter to the beaches of southwest Florida.…

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  • , blood rising in thin slivers.

    This week we are going to get very, very practical. I’d like to talk about a mistake creative writers make all the time. Every time…

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  • The Writer and I Know Very Little

    There are many ways in which the work of crafting fiction is very different from living life. One of these is in the following adage…

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  • What Jackson Said

    Here is something you need to know. It is a quote that summarizes the creative process. It describes what every writer, painter, composer, and creator…

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  • Of the Innumerable Effects

    Ben H. Winters said to us in a recent workshop, (my paraphrase) that a writer’s work is not to create stories, but rather to create…

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