Category: Role of the Writer

  • 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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  • If You’re Bored

    If you’re bored, no…if you’re not thoroughly riveted by the piece you’re writing, it’s not ready for a reader. And until this criteria is met,…

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  • Crush or Commitment?

    I have a long-form fiction project I’d like to discuss for a moment. Let’s call it Fabula. (Fabula is Latin for story.) When I’m working…

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