Happy almost-Halloween! For those of you who are going to be in Minneapolis between January 17 and February 2, 2025, I have an announcement—The Phoenix Theater (https://www.phoenixtheatermpls.org/) here is doing a production of Dealing with Dragons during that time. Tickets available at the link above. I love
Read more →One of the perennial questions every professional writer gets is, “How do you find time to write?” One of the common answers to that question is, “You don’t find time. You make time. People can always make time for what they love to do.” Followed by a
Read more →It is once again time for an open mike day! Tell us how your life is going, grumble about your work, brag about your successes, ask questions, whatever you want.
Read more →One of the things it’s easy to lose sight of is that “writing is a solitary business” has a lot of implications besides “it means you spend a lot of time sitting alone at your computer writing stuff.” Among other things, it means that everything comes down
Read more →“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” – James Clear, Atomic Habits I’ve had several requests to talk about systems for writing fiction. The trouble is that a good, workable system is particular, even when it’s
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