Category: Creative Process/Craft
Writing When the Story is Failing
While writing earlier this week, the process felt like running in sand uphill. There was little evidence of progress. The desire to quit was great.…
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Writers Who Don’t Read
For over ten years I’ve written posts about the craft of fiction, every other Wednesday, here on this site. I have to believe I have…
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A Change in Setting Revealed
In November I experienced A Change in Setting. I packed up my writing space––my table and chair, fifty boxes of books (and their bookcases), a…
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That Flash of Delight
Writing is a slow-going effort. It’s a solitary and troublesome venture. What keeps a writer coming back to his chair day after day? There are…
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My First Reader
My writing, when first born, is a very ugly baby. Seriously. You don’t see the first draft of anything. If you did you would say,…
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