Category: Creative Process/Craft
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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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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