Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • You Erase More Than You Draw

    My friend Frank told me he heard some excellent advise on writing from an art instructor. Advising students on drawing, the instructor said, “you erase…

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  • Getting Into Character

    Getting into character is a theater term. It’s the effort an actor makes to embody the part they are playing—well beyond the script and the…

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  • Over A Decade of Blogposts

    This post marks eleven years of "Revel and Rant ~ A Column on the Craft of Fiction."  Every other Wednesday, with a handful of exceptions…

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  • Imago Dei

    Creativity is infectious. When there are others around me seeking to produce creative work, this spurs my own production. This is why I'm part of…

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  • Define Done

    It's been said many times: a writer never finishes a piece of writing, he just stops working on it. This is true. The risk is…

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