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This is often the case with writing; extended longueurs when you simply have to trust that, beneath the implacable, icy…
Patrick Hardy, interested in my project, asked me to demonstrate a few of the tricks. Mummified Finger? Flapping Thing? I…
A classic crime story starts with a dead body and then we work backwards, often with a central detective character,…
Many of us have Kindles and yet we still buy books, because sometimes we just want something to hold. Or…
The student distrusts their own abilities to evoke a fictional world and so they add in more and more detail.…
What a published text really gives you, is the smoldering possibility of more. A genuine afterlife for the play. What…
At night, I meditate on the problem. I ask myself, what is the problem? Am I stuck because I have…
You’ll have three wonderful children, and you’ll have the pleasure of rereading the books you reread, with them. You’ll have…
If something really gets to me, I want to figure out how and why. What is it the writer does…
Good nature poetry is about looking, but it’s also about having the right vocabulary, which most of us townies are…
But what about the writer as insider? For every prophet in the wilderness, isn’t there someone firmly embedded in the…
The writers who inspire me are those for whom writing is routine. The ones who, while fond of singing and…
