Category: Creative Process/Craft

  • 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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  • 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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