Category: Creative Process/Craft
Reading Aloud to Myself
The Friday before Mother’s Day my wife and I had her parents and mine over for dinner. I grilled chicken breasts, we had asparagus and…
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Like a Conversation with an Old Friend
I find writing to be relaxing. If and when I find a couple of hours of quiet (most days I write amongst the noise) and…
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[Not] Endless Possibilities
I’ve heard creative nonfiction writers say that one of the things they find intimidating about writing fiction is that fiction has endless possibilities, and that…
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What Your Reader Cannot Possibly Know
What you don’t know as a writer, your reader has no hope of knowing. I will sometimes see phrases in stories like “her hair was…
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Voice
So what is good dialogue made of?* It is made of voice. This is when the writer must earn his or her keep. Writing strong…
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