Category: Creative Process/Craft
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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Sitting Down to Write
I recently listened to an interview with Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Baggar Vance, as well as the book on creative work, The…
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