Thoughts on Writing

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