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Another Way to Look at Cycling

Bradbury, Setting Goals, and Writers Ask

All About Characters

A New Story, and Writers Ask

Websites, Crowdfunding, Going Hybrid

A New Look at Critical vs. Creative Voice

Merry Christmas!

Wanna Be a Ghostwriter? Practical Tips

Bradbury, and I'm Excited!

Happy Holidays!

For All Fiction Writers

A Great Question, Things I Forgot, and Busy

The Novel Wrapped, and What Matters

An Epiphany, and Challenges for 2025

Ten Ways to Start 2025 with a Bang

Bradbury, and Failing to Success

Writing Into the Dark (redux, redux)

A New Short Story, and Yesterday

Raw Emotion: Some Musings

Another Spreadsheet Revelation

On Pacing and Paragraphing

The Novel Wrapped, and Steven Pressfield

Bradbury, Writing, and Writem Part 2

Writem et al (Part 1), and Yesterday

So My Character Said…

I Decided to Try Something New

What to Do When a Story Goes Blue?

Goals vs. Dreams

A Personal Challenge for You

Bradbury Challenge, and Adventures

Writing Prompts Work

Boring Stuff Re the Ongoing Drama

The Myths of Fiction Writing

A Request, and Black Friday ‘Deals’?

Rewriting to Oblivion (guest post)

Writing Fiction Is A Journey

Bradbury, and Great Testimonials

An Apt Analogy, and Part 2

This Should Be a Guest Post

Hitting a Million?

It’s Time to Publish to Paper

About Hybrid Publishing

Writing Is Just Writing

Bradbury, and Provocative? Yes.

This!

Novel Collaborations, and the Writing

How to Overcome ‘Writing Anxiety’?

DITW—Pacing Is Everything, Part 1: Dialogue

A Life Hack, and a Short Post

Jupiter, and More

Bradbury and a LOT More

Forgetfulness: Blessing or Curse?

Storytelling

The Vote Is In (No, Not That Vote)

A Deep Dive on Cycling

Little or Nothing

Election Day 2024

Bradbury, and An Encounter With Critical Voice

More on Replacing “It” and ‘Down in the Weeds’

Over a Million Consumable Words

Welcome to November!

Being Too Vague Is Not Good

A Very Short Post

Priorities, and When You Buy Used

Bradbury, and November Challenge Expanded

Two Essential Tips and a Sale

November, and a Great Response

Want to Collaborate?

Writers Write

Yesterday, and Spell Checking

Please Think Long and Hard

Bradbury, and Typos Happen

Ten Years Ago Yesterday

Given the Ability to Split My Soul

You Have Achieved Great Things

Scheduling and Challenges

On the Different Ways to Write Fiction

The List

Bradbury, and An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Practice Is Important

Setting Goals: A New Post

A Place (and Computer) of One’s Own

Don’t Tighten Your Shoelaces…

A Great Question

I Wrote This Into the Dark

Bradbury, and The Value of Averages 3

The Value of Averages, 2

The Value of Averages, 1

Post-Publication Organizing

Pre-Publication Preparation

A Virtual Tour…

Preliminary Report on the September Challenge

Bradbury Challenge, and On Structure

Report from the Stanbrough Camp, West

Sigh… “Diversity” and “Inclusion”

Think Like a Fiction Writer

Beginning In Media Res

Please Don’t Make Me Do Math

Insinuations and Truth

Bradbury, and A Writer on Writing

Write What You Know?

Another Note on Writer’s Block

MFA 3

MFA 2

MFA 1

Harvey’s Notes to Earth Is Live

Bradbury, and Prelude to MFA Posts

All About Yesterday

On Writer’s Block and Ray Bradbury

A Brief Lesson on Averages

Seven Tips on Ghostwriting

The Great September Challenge

Bradbury and September Challenges, and a New Venture

Taking Your Time: An Example

Okay, I Gotta Share This

10 Lesser Mistakes Writers Make: 2

10 Lesser Mistakes Writers Make: 1

The Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make: 2

The Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make, Part 1

Playing Catch-Up

WITD, Responses, and See?

Carving Out Time, and Priorities

A New Story, and First Things First

The Inexorable Rule of Writing Fiction

The Upcoming Challenge and More

Marketing Stuff and More

Bradbury Challenge and More

Finger Wagging at the Guy in the Mirror

Special Sale! and a New Short Story

Back in the Hovel and Writing Software

Working from the Back Porch

The Novel Wrapped—Well, Almost

Ratcheting Up the Tension

Bradbury Challenge, and One Writer Got It

It’s All About Pacing

A Day Off and Reminders

On Using Formulas in Fiction

Three Writing Challenges: Your Choice

Correction, Thanks, and Commas

A Light Discourse on Punctuation (Redux)

Bradbury Challenge and a Little More

A New Story, Saturday, and MS Word for Writers

Try a Meet-Cute

Taking a Step Back

An Interesting Question on Formatting

Speaking of Lawrence Block

Bradbury, Play vs. Work, and Humans Are Mortal

Overcoming Fear, and Admin Stuff

Regarding Mood and Voice

Writing (Practicing) Is What Matters

You Can’t Teach Writing, and Heinlein’s Rules

WITD and Story Length, Part 2

WITD and Story Length, Part 1

The Bradbury Challenge, On Being Prolific, and More

An Introduction, and A Moustache Hair

Genre Schmanre, a Book Giveaway, and More

BettyPam vs. the Individual Person

Controlling the Reader, Part 3

Controlling the Reader, Part 2

Controlling the Reader, Part 1

Bradbury Challenge, and Mentioning Other Authors

Yesterday, and Thoughts on TNDJ and Zoom

Zoom Workshops? and Potpourri

I Got Nothin’

Yesterday I Scrolled

On Writing “Fast” and Quality (Revisited)

More “Writers Ask”

Bradbury Challenge, and Writers Ask

On Characters

Advice from an Old Guy

The Purpose of Chapters

Storytelling at Depth 7: Notes on Process

Storytelling at Depth 6: Endings

Let’s Take a Breath

The Bradbury Challenge and Much More

Storytelling at Depth 5: Pacing

Stages of a Fiction Writer: Stage 4

Stages of a Fiction Writer: Stages 1–3

Storytelling at Depth 4b: More Grounding the Reader

Storytelling at Depth 4a: Grounding the Reader

Storytelling at Depth 3b: The Hook

The Bradbury Challenge and More

Storytelling at Depth 3a: The Cliffhanger

Storytelling at Depth 2b: Only Gold Is Gold

Storytelling at Depth 2a: The Opening

Storytelling at Depth 1: Intro

Critiques, Copyedits, Subscriptions, and More

Smiling Sharks

All About the Bradbury Challenge

It’s Great to Be Back

Getting Started as a Ghostwriter

Writer’s Block

The Basics of DIY Covers, Part 2

The Basics of DIY Covers, Part 1

Experience Matters

How To Sell Your Next Book

Back to Genres for a Bit

A Story, a Short Absence, and Writer’s Block

Cycling Explained Differently

On Believing in Yourself

Substack, and Un-Abandoning a Novel

Catching Up

Kill All Your Darlings?

On Wandering Novels, and Genre

Murder, and a Litte More on Openings

An Opening Doesn’t Always…

The Reverse Outline and Titling Chapters

This Is Next-Level Stuff

Take Your Time. Details Matter.

Thoughts on Writing in Public

The Two Kinds of Critiques

The First Issue

Coming soon