Category: writing
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How this pantser became a plotter
Home Short Fiction Blog X I’ve always been a seat-of-the-pants writer. Someone who enjoys discovering the book as I write…
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Running: my new writing buddy
Home Short Fiction Blog X Sit as little as possible. – Friedrich Nietzsche I started running again recently, after a…
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What the Faux, Hemingway?
When a literary quote doesn’t hold true.
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Writing like an animator
Home Short Fiction Blog X Today I did something I’ve always wanted to do: I saw this year’s reel of…
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The storyteller’s storyteller
Home Short Fiction Blog X What happened when I decided to read a book by my mother’s literary love My…
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The Indoor Life
Home Short Fiction Blog X Nine days after the start of the most destructive fire in California history, the Bay…
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Back from the UK (with pictures)
Home Short Fiction Blog X The jet lag has worn off, but two weeks ago I got back from a…
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The impossibility of writing in an empty house
Home Short Fiction Blog X The door closes. There is that beautiful sound: silence. The sound I’ve longed to hear,…
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The top 5 writing distractions. (#5 will surprise you)
Home Short Fiction Blog X If anything is a test of your will as a writer, it’s resisting the distractions…
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How not to dread writing
Home Short Fiction Blog X I am a writer and a writing teacher. So I deal with my own writing…
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