Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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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  • 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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