Dream Vacations (for This Writer)
We all have dream vacations, places we want to go that fit firmly into our bucket lists with permanent ink. Writers have them, too.
Pentimento: a Fancy Word for “That’s Better”
In the world of art (and I’m speaking specifically of painting), the word pentimento (derived from the Italian pentirsi, which means to repent or change your mind) is a change made by the artist during the process of painting. As a painter, I’ve done this many times, although the discovering of the change or changes…
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I Hear Voices…Can’t You?
Voices. Voices everywhere. What I consider to be the hardest part of starting a novel is not technical, exactly. It’s not the outlining or the descriptive note cards I might have scattered about the bedroom like so much detritus nor the initial formatting of the manuscript (which I’ve since learned is just foolish at the…
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How a Little Boy Gave Me a Reason
I originally wrote part of this post just before I turned 40. However, I sometimes need to be reminded why I’m here. It happens every once in a while: you bury yourself in the business aspect of writing, looking at numbers, trying to forecast the way the readership blows, but when all is said and…
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Transit Novels
Nonfiction
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