Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • From Telling to Showing

    Writers of fiction are consistently told, and rightfully so, to “show, don’t tell.” In other words, a reader wants to see the story unspool, not…

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  • Waterborne is Launched

    My second novel, Waterborne: Chronicle of the Clan of Noah, is now fully released and in the hands of readers. As a writer, this is…

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  • Writing Like a Filmmaker

    I attended an author fair this last Saturday and struck up a conversation with the author L. M. Helm. Luke is a writer of westerns…

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  • How (My) Characters Come to Be

    At the moment, I’m fascinated with this part of the process: how do characters such as Ishmael, Huck, Mrs. Bridge, Bilbo Baggins, or Count Rostov…

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  • Cover Art

    A couple of weeks ago I saw the first concept art for the cover of Waterborne, my upcoming second novel. It looked terrific and after…

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