Category: Role of the Writer
The Rush of the First Draft
The first draft is about gathering all the basic materials you’ll need for the finished product and organizing them before you. Laying them out, taking…
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Cut and Tape
Here is a very practical tool that has served me well time and time again. Most recently a little over a week ago. When to…
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Why I Write Long Form Fiction
It is what the boatwright feels when the hull has taken shape and shavings from the mast are beginning to litter the floor. It is…
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Read Aloud
Do you read your writing aloud to yourself? Is this part of your writing process? Yes? Good. You can stop reading here. Well done. Carry…
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When Our Delight Becomes a Task
We live in a fast-paced, routinely and deeply dissatisfying culture. This is not news. We live it. It is the water. We are the fish.…
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