Category: Technicalities

  • Editing Your Work

    Writing and editing are vastly different tasks. Both are essential and both must be undertaken. It's important to know when you're doing one vs. the…

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  • Writing When the Story is Failing

    While writing earlier this week, the process felt like running in sand uphill. There was little evidence of progress. The desire to quit was great.…

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  • Fire

    I am finishing a late draft of my current long-form project. The setting of the story is agricultural, pre-electricity. The family uses open flame for…

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  • Experiment: A Beta Reading Group

    It is key to the late-stage development of any piece of long-form creative writing to engage beta readers. These are individual readers who read widely…

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  • From the Archives: About the Blurred Line

    [This blogpost first appeared here on 4 May 2016] I'm going to get a bit academic on you here. Bear with me. The post is…

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