Improving Technique Four Years In 30 Apr 20222 Sep 2022 Each of these anniversaries seems to come faster than the last. I've been working on this blog for four years now, and it seems both longer and shorter than that…
Improving Technique Three Years In 30 Apr 202115 Apr 2022 I looked at the things I wrote for my second anniversary and was shocked to realize how recent it all felt. I remember writing those things as if it had…
Lessons Taking a Look Back: Part Two 1 Mar 202126 Dec 2021 Here we are with just more section left in The Favored Son: Alternate! This Thursday I'll post the conclusion, then be ready to move on to something new. A week…
Improving Technique My Fifty: #20 – #11 9 Nov 202020 Dec 2021 I am reviewing all fifty of my short stories, ranking them from worst to best. Today I will bring us to the threshold of my most treasured work. Something Special)…
Improving Technique My Fifty: #36 – #21 5 Nov 202020 Dec 2021 I am reviewing all fifty of my short stories, ranking them from worst to best. Today I am taking a look at the middle of the pack. It's Nice. No…
Improving Technique My Fifty: #50 – #37 2 Nov 202020 Dec 2021 On Thursday I posted the last section of The Favored Son, which also marked the end of my most recent series. This isn't all, though, it also held the distinction…
Lessons The Self-Examined Son 26 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 Usually at the conclusion of each story, I leave a little space at the end to review all the different lessons I gained from writing it, and to summarize all…
Lessons A Fitting End 4 May 20201 Dec 2021 Back to Basics) Some elements of storytelling are so ubiquitous that they are taken for granted...at least until you start writing a story of your own and then have to…
Improving Technique Two Years In 30 Apr 20201 Dec 2021 Wow! I'll be honest, the first year of this blog dragged very slowly for me. By the time I hit my first anniversary I felt I had accomplished a herculean…
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