Archive for the Writing category

What authors reveal

I’m reading a book right now that is just plain embarrassing. I feel like I’m intruding in the author’s head, and I don’t like what [...]

First draft melodrama

This passage is from the very first draft of the very first chapter I wrote. Both chapter and excerpt have since been rewritten several times. [...]

Grace notes

. . . the road meandered along hills lined with the soft grey-brown of winter trees stitching a white sky to the ground.

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Beginnings

I work from sentence to sentence. The first sentence of a chapter sets the tone and tells me where to go. I’m lost until that [...]

Wisps of writing

A lot of people like to write out their first draft before coming back to touch up their prose. Well, I like to do that [...]

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