Category: About writing

Anecdotes about my writing and discussions of the writing craft.

One Carousel You Don’t Want to Ride

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Don’t Lose Your Words: Personal Administration for Writers Introduction to Part 1 Not having seen every carousel in the world I can’t tell you for sure that the one pictured above is the most beautiful. But it’s the most beautiful one I’ve seen. It’s right along the Seine […]

What Kind of Tree Is Your Book?

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For a moment, let’s think of writing books as if we were planting trees. What kind of trees are we planting? Of course we’d all like to plant a tree like that mentioned in Psalm 1 “which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.”  […]