Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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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  • Novel Edits

    Writers need editors. Most of us do not excel at editing our own work. The rest of us outright stink at it. Our biases are…

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  • Between Projects

    I was recently asked by Maccabee Griffin of Beyond the Pen to identify my kryptonite as a writer—that one thing that deprives me of my…

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