I’ve been doing stuff. You don’t even know.

This one started strong . . . and lay dormant for a year.

It’s risky to write a novel without structure.

You can work as a writer, or you can react as a reader.

Writers need tools, not feelings.

My students crawled through a cardboard box.

My kids taught me a lesson.

I’m weird about the novels I like.

Novel, Story, Poetry, Memoir, Comics, Crime, History, Politics, Science, Technology

I recommend his novels without reservation.

I’m grateful for the opportunity. (Also: whoo-hoo!)

Um, maybe it’s not a sabbatical anymore.

Emigre published, in 2005, my 35,000-word essay on graphic design.

My first novel was published twenty years ago in 2005.

I wrote and published a book of short stories in the year 2000.

I have written 50 entries on writing since 2022.

Some plot twists are conventional.

Here are four strategies for how to use ghosts.

The ghost haunts the hero’s judgment.

Theme is about what the character does, not what anyone says.