Craft Note: Serious Day Jobs and the Grave Dangers of the “Twinned” Existence
The Writer and Pynchon’s Concept of “Twinning” So, here I find myself arrived at that stage of life in which …
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Craft Note: Epistolary Reflections on Innovative Writing
I seem to have always been drawn to fiction you might say is “out there.” This seems to have had …
Craft Note: How I Hit the Reset Button to Clear My Mind for Writing
I’ve heard some writers complain (and I’ve been one of them) that after a day at work they find it …
Craft Note: A Dictum for Sheer Fiction
One dictum I coined to keep my writing on track is this: Do things in prose the Hollywood machine cannot …
Craft Note: Working at Half-Sentence Level
This week I’ve been busy cutting, honing, and polishing a chapter of Housebreaking the Muse. The editor of a well-regarded …
