A while back, a visitor to my website said that it contained a lot of useful information for writers. However, when I looked closer at the site myself, I discovered that many of the best pieces were buried under years of blog entries, making them difficult to find.

So, I decided to create one page with links to the best of these buried entries. I hope these pieces prove helpful in your own writing and writing life.

 

Craft / Technique / Rewriting

Cutting

My Writing Secret Weapon

Polishing

Shut Up, Hemingway

The Creative Tension Imperative

The Masters of Narrative Drive

Two Ideas to Get You Through (The 1st Draft)

To All So-Called Authors: Stop Doing This; You Look Like Idiots

My Prodigiously Convoluted Yet Miraculously Productive Low-Tech Writing Process — Part 1

My Prodigiously Convoluted Yet Miraculously Productive Low-Tech Writing Process — Part 2 — With a Few Modest Writing Secrets

 

Epublishing / Ebooks / Kindle

A Shattered Paradigm

Publishing Your Ebook: Don’t Go It Alone

What I Learned While Publishing the Dakota Stevens Series on Kindle

Why I’m Publishing My P.I. Series on Kindle

 

Grammar / Syntax / Punctuation

What the Hell Are Syntactic Slots?

To All So-Called Authors: Stop Doing This; You Look Like Idiots

 

The Writing Life / Inspiration

Burning Your Ships

Farewell, Millbrook Round Table

Harlan Ellison’s Wonderful Rant

Love Makes Me Write, Not Self-Discipline

My Granite Reminder

Preparing for Success

The Dilemma of the 21st Century Writer

The Only Thing You Can Control

Writing vs. Self-Promotion

 

Writing Tools

Index Cards Are Sexy

On the Virtues of Typewriters and Pencils