Author post… Recursions, Part 8: “A Moveable Feast,” by Ernest Hemingway 26 Oct 201727 Oct 2017 This is the eighth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Get Thee to an Editor 15 Oct 201719 Nov 2017 There are four rules to follow if you want to self-publish a novel and not embarrass yourself, the publishing industry, and the English language. They are: 1) Write slowly. Write…
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…
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…
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 Personal History, Part I 10 Aug 201712 Aug 2017 I confess that I wrote this years ago for an earlier website, but since it's all looking backwards, it still holds true. "Personal History, Part II" is still being written,…
Author post No Regrets 8 Aug 201710 Aug 2017 Long ago (but not far away), back at the dawn of time, I made a decision for which I've often been mocked and derided over the concatenated decades since: I…
Announcement… 85,021 6 Aug 20178 Aug 2017 The third novel now stands at 85,021 words. This is close to what I'd envisioned as its final bulk, and in fact the first draft is close to finished. Just…
Author post… Recursions, Part 6: Christopher Hitchens’s “Unacknowledged Legislation” 3 Aug 20175 Aug 2017 This is the sixth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
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