Most of Your Life Is Medium
Most of the actual day-to-day effort of our creativity tends to be medium-level satisfying. We’re not kissed by the Muse…
Month: February 2024
The Delicate Art of Reveals
Reveals are among the more challenging storytelling elements to pull off. An anticlimactic reveal can leave readers underwhelmed. An obvious…
Anatomy of a Revision (Or, Surmounting the Suck)
My actual journey across the Suckpits of Suckville to the shiny gates of Finished Draft City, in case it might…
Embrace the Suck
Sometimes we may start a project knowing exactly what we want to say and how to say it, and the…
The Painful Anxiety of Playing Favorites
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. This weekend I met with a neighbor…