Author post What, You Missed It? 22 Sep 201722 Sep 2017 ...Of course I didn't announce it on this blog, which is why you should sign on to the Crow Tree mailing list, something you can do at the link conveniently…
Author post Getting Over Yourself: Advice for Novelists 17 Sep 201720 Oct 2017 There are many ways to become a good writer, but one of the best ways to become a great one–besides giving yourself a thorough grounding in the mechanics of language–is…
Author post The Beginning of the End 10 Sep 201710 Sep 2017 I came to the last word of the first draft of my third novel yesterday morning. This marks, of course, not the end of the hard work, but only the…
Announcement… To the Finish Line! 4 Sep 20174 Sep 2017 That's Frank's rat rod in the picture above. Of course he doesn't actually race it, but it's as close as I could get to a racing image without indulging in…
Author post Outside the Lines 31 Aug 20172 Sep 2017 It's popular these days to advise folks that they ought to "color outside the lines," though submitting to that counsel often leads to feeble displays of chaos. Sometimes, though, carefully…
Author post Everything New Is Old Again 28 Aug 201718 Sep 2017 This morning, I glanced over from where I was reading to see my wife listening to music on her smartphone. I've done this too, though reluctantly: I don't mind plugging…
Announcement… Speech and Scribbles 24 Aug 201725 Aug 2017 No one is really sure yet where language comes from, whether it originates in the brain, or somewhere beyond, in the dim electric dancings of the universe. Surely if we…
Author post Five Essentials of Novel-Writing for Self-Published Authors 22 Aug 201722 Aug 2017 I scribed this for A Writer's Path, where it will appear sometime in the next month. Editor Ryan Lanz graciously suggested I feel free to publish it here first. It’s…
Announcement… Books in the Offing 18 Aug 201719 Aug 2017 Being both an English major and (once upon a time) a sailing man, I have a visual sense of what "in the offing" means: it describes the position of a…
Author post Novels and Nazis 14 Aug 201715 Aug 2017 Is there a place for novels and novelists when Nazis march the streets of a tarnishing America, and gather in the squares of Europe, while clans face off in the…
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