“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

Your ability to mash disparate experiences and knowledge together and make connections between them is what makes you uniquely creative.

Remember when there was a great deal of talk in writerly circles about crafting morally gray characters? Seems like I hear less of it these days. Makes me wonder if it’s due to the fact that we’re …

It all sounds so simple, just write every day, how hard could it be? (cue laughter).

Twelve tales of cursed love, monstrous meet-cutes, dark and stormy witchcraft, and happily ever hauntings to warm your Spooky Season.

The Typosphere

Some thoughts on an article about the La Sagrada Familia cathedral and a meditation on sitting with uncertainty and incompleteness in your writing.

iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.

Weasel words sap your sentences of conviction and once you start to notice them, you will see them everywhere.

Yes, even if you are not published yet. The need for your materials will sneak up on you.

Build your writing muscle with these books on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric.

My summer began with rushing one of my sons to the emergency room for a very large kidney stone that required an overnight hospital stay, a stent, and a later surgery to dissolve the stone. It was …

If you are doing any kind of reasearch How to Take Smart Notes is worth a read to see if these ideas work for you

If you're still here, thanks for sticking with me. Writing is resuming as I can, but it is resuming, so more to come...

Instead of a New Years resolution, try a gentler approach by setting a yearly or seasonal theme. Here's how.

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Thought-time is the sum of the mental energy put into a piece of artwork. Along with craft-time and distance-time it helps determine the "value" of the work.

The Prompt

The writing community has a metaphor for the way we seek agents: the Query Trenches. It describes that strange stretch between typing THE END and breaking through publishing’s first gate. Any autho…

What is the actual order of the events, as the point of view character witnesses them?

What specifically happened in that particular time when light fell through those particular leaves.