There's this process by which I slowly begin to hate my own work. I didn't always have this, it was something instilled in me by...

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I'm more than halfway through this project and I'm already back to questioning the ethics at play here. Am I misrepresenting someone who...

Here is this month's selection of free Medium articles for your perusal. These are friend links and won't count against your non-member...

This afternoon, I finished writing a segment of EMPATHY that will definitely offend someone. I say that without pride, without boasting...

I'm sitting at 35,000 words and am - temporally speaking - 42% finished. From here, it gets harder, then easier, then harder again. It...

People love to talk about - and condemn - fiction as "escapist," suggesting that consuming it is emblematic of some sort of weakness....

I'm about a third of the way through this project, which means it's time I once again spoke obliquely about the content of this latest...

Here is this month's selection of free Medium articles for your perusal. These are friend links and won't count against your non-member...

It's funny how real life can inform a work of fiction. One of the problems facing the protagonist of this story is the intrusion...

You get a blend of feelings when you're working on an essentially doomed project. On the one hand, it is certainly liberating - no...

All the things I've written about this project, and I've yet to say what it's about. I'm keeping mum about this for a reason, but I can...

It's amazing how easy this project has been so far. Even when I'm stuck on everything else I try to do, and I'm bashing my head against...

So you may have noticed that there wasn't a "Successes and Failures" post for last month. Actually, you probably didn't as no one reads...

When people write fiction that's heavily inspired by their own life experiences - a technique commonly known as roman a clef - the usual...