Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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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  • The Low Survival Rate of Early Chapters

    My current project imagines itself will one day be a full-length novel. Today it is 3500 words of metawriting (writing about the writing—we’ll call it…

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  • Waiting, A Writer’s Skill

    There are many skills a writer needs. Many of them are obvious. All can be learned. Some are learned whether one plans to write creatively…

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  • The Beholder’s Share*

    The idea is this: part of the meaning or significance of a work of art is provided by the viewer. The viewer of the work,…

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  • Speakeasy

    A writer has several needs that must be met in order to practice his craft. He needs a physical place that is solely his where…

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