“Rolling revising” is a writing term that I think is fairly clear, but I’ll take a whack at a quick definition: Instead of writing a complete first draft from start to finish, the writer periodically goes back over already-written parts and revises them before continuing, even though
Read more →“Beginning: The point in time or space when something starts.” – Oxford languages. From that deceptively simple definition stems a lot of writerly misunderstanding. At a rough and very unscientific estimate, around 90% of the writing advice on beginnings talks about what belongs in the first few
Read more →It is another Open Mic day! Announce successes, complain about problems, recommend a book, rave about a new recipe … whatever floats your boat.
Read more →“Plot-noodling” is a term I came up with to describe a … thing … that I and some of my writer friends do when one of us is stuck; it involves the writer sitting down with one or (rarely) two other people, who ask the writer a
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