Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • When Writing Upstages Story

    Upstage is a theater term. This is when one actor over-acts and pulls the attention of the audience to himself——regardless of the intended focus of…

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  • Draft 18

    I am in the midst of draft 18 of my current novel. This is an administrative fact, but one that carries nuance. The term defined:…

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  • An Opportunity to Teach

    This Fall I'll be teaching creative writing at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. I'll be teaching one course'ENG 3232 Intermediate Fiction'each Wednesday and Friday…

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  • Charismatic Characters

    What I am offering here is not mine. It is Charles Baxter's.* I am bringing it here because it was an epiphany for me (or…

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  • In Short: The Nature of Our Work

    You cannot trust your day-in and day-out feelings about your creative work. These are no gauge. They are no metric. They are far too fickle. …

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