WRITER on WRITING

Oh, back again so soon? Well, I guess that’s as much on me as it is on you. But I did have another thought I wanted to bounce off you. This ...

So, there’s something I was hoping we could avoid talking about this week... Subtext is one of those things that gets mentioned a lot . In...

I (finally) wanted to step away from the usual process stuff we talk about here—structure, dialogue, characters, editing, and so on—to talk ...

I touched on something a few weeks back that I thought was worth revisiting. It’s not unusual for us to set stories in fantastic worlds th...

I’m going to be honest with all of you. The clown thing isn’t coming together. I’ve got an idea but I haven’t been able to focus on it enou...

Yes, I went there. So, more than a few times here, I’ve talked about the need to pare away non-essential things. Characters. Names. Descri...

So, hey... anything interesting going on in the world? I kinda touched on this a month or so back, but since we’re all suffering from a bit ...

 There’s a storytelling idea, sort of a method, I suppose, that I’d been batting around for a while as a possible topic. Something I see cro...

I got a request from Rhyen, which is great because I still haven’t really hammered those ideas on endings or comedy quite into shape. So th...