Category: Role of the Writer

  • 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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  • 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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  • Not Since 2018

    The end of February saw a milestone in my writing not seen in nearly five years. It’s a milestone I’d like to mark more often,…

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  • Getting Into Character

    Getting into character is a theater term. It’s the effort an actor makes to embody the part they are playing—well beyond the script and the…

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  • In Short: The Nature of Our Work

    You cannot trust your day-in and day-out feelings about your creative work. These are no gauge. They are no metric. They are far too fickle. …

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