#onwriting — Public Fediverse posts
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Deals For Writers
I know many of you don’t go to Dean’s website, which means many of you miss some wonderful online writing tidbits as well as some excellent deals. I mention the tidbits, but today’s email is about the deals. We’re running a workshop sale in the doldrums of summer. We figure many of you don’t have […]…
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Deals For Writers
I know many of you don’t go to Dean’s website, which means many of you miss some wonderful online writing tidbits as well as some excellent deals. I mention the tidbits, but today’s email is about the deals. We’re running a workshop sale in the doldrums of summer. We figure many of you don’t have […]…
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What’s a daily blog actually for?
I started this blog in August 2011 as a place to post a eulogy. Fifteen years and over 5,000 posts later, it’s no longer one thing. It’s a system that does several jobs at once — exposes me to material I wouldn’t otherwise read, forces a third pass on anything that catches my attention, makes me decide what’s actually worth keeping, and gives me an archive to come back to when I’ve forgotten what I once knew.
This thread is about why I keep doing it. Not as advice — I have no idea whether what works for me would work for you — but as the working-out of a practice that has shaped how I think for over a decade. The blog isn’t precious. It’s messy. I work with the garage door up. The thread is sequenced for someone wondering whether it’s still worth doing this kind of thing.
Working with the garage door up
constantine.name — October 2021Open with the metaphor that anchors everything else. Growing up with a garage means you know what it’s like to throw open a door and let the neighbors saunter up. “Turns out, that’s literally ‘showing your work.'” The blog isn’t a finished product on display. It’s the workbench, with the door open. If you know what I’m talking about, you can hear that door opening.
Take some time to reflect
constantine.name — December 2022The origin and what it became. “This blog started initially as a place for me to post a eulogy, and then it grew to serve many more purposes. It’s now solidly a way for me to reflect, and to work with the garage door up.” The blog is the forcing-function for daily discovery and reflection — not because it’s required, but because nothing else in my life makes me do it.
Should I keep blogging?
constantine.name — September 2022The four functions, named. Exposure, learning, integration, writing — “All of that goes into feeding my personal growth and priming my curiosity.” I ask myself this question at a frequency approaching every minute. The honest answer: “It doesn’t feel like stopping is realistically an option.”
Thoughts on Conversation
constantine.name — August 2022Different channels for different purposes. The blog stays messy and exploratory; polished work goes elsewhere. “Here on the blog things are messy as I’m working with garage door up. There’s a lot of discovery and reflection happening here.” Knowing what each channel is for is what keeps any of them from becoming everything.
The library
constantine.name — May 2022The archive as the rest of the system. “I regularly reread these blog posts myself to make sure the thoughts still look reasonable after some time sitting on the digital shelf.” The blog isn’t only for the reader. It’s the place I go to find out what I used to think.
And 7 years later?
constantine.name — July 2025Honest accounting at fourteen years and five thousand posts. Tom Critchlow wrote in 2018 about networked writing — write about people you want to reach, the lowly hyperlink does the connecting. Seven years later: “in 14 years / 5,000 posts I’ve never had anyone (an author of something I’ve linked to) reach out to me.” And that’s fine. “I don’t blog as a way to fish for connections like that. I blog as a way of working with the garage door up.”
Like letter-writing?
constantine.name — March 2026The current question, fifteen years in. A historian writes about relics — things not intended for future generations, but valuable precisely because of that. “I’ve now been typing away on this blog for fifteen years and what I have posted here has varied wildly in that time… While it has occurred to me to wonder what happens to the blog after I die, it had never occurred to me to wonder if there might be actual value to historians here. I’m honestly not sure what to do with that. Do I keep posting? Do I close the garage door?” The thread ends with the live question.
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What’s a daily blog actually for?
I started this blog in August 2011 as a place to post a eulogy. Fifteen years and over 5,000 posts later, it’s no longer one thing. It’s a system that does several jobs at once — exposes me to material I wouldn’t otherwise read, forces a third pass on anything that catches my attention, makes me decide what’s actually worth keeping, and gives me an archive to come back to when I’ve forgotten what I once knew.
This thread is about why I keep doing it. Not as advice — I have no idea whether what works for me would work for you — but as the working-out of a practice that has shaped how I think for over a decade. The blog isn’t precious. It’s messy. I work with the garage door up. The thread is sequenced for someone wondering whether it’s still worth doing this kind of thing.
Working with the garage door up
constantine.name — October 2021Open with the metaphor that anchors everything else. Growing up with a garage means you know what it’s like to throw open a door and let the neighbors saunter up. “Turns out, that’s literally ‘showing your work.'” The blog isn’t a finished product on display. It’s the workbench, with the door open. If you know what I’m talking about, you can hear that door opening.
Take some time to reflect
constantine.name — December 2022The origin and what it became. “This blog started initially as a place for me to post a eulogy, and then it grew to serve many more purposes. It’s now solidly a way for me to reflect, and to work with the garage door up.” The blog is the forcing-function for daily discovery and reflection — not because it’s required, but because nothing else in my life makes me do it.
Should I keep blogging?
constantine.name — September 2022The four functions, named. Exposure, learning, integration, writing — “All of that goes into feeding my personal growth and priming my curiosity.” I ask myself this question at a frequency approaching every minute. The honest answer: “It doesn’t feel like stopping is realistically an option.”
Thoughts on Conversation
constantine.name — August 2022Different channels for different purposes. The blog stays messy and exploratory; polished work goes elsewhere. “Here on the blog things are messy as I’m working with garage door up. There’s a lot of discovery and reflection happening here.” Knowing what each channel is for is what keeps any of them from becoming everything.
The library
constantine.name — May 2022The archive as the rest of the system. “I regularly reread these blog posts myself to make sure the thoughts still look reasonable after some time sitting on the digital shelf.” The blog isn’t only for the reader. It’s the place I go to find out what I used to think.
And 7 years later?
constantine.name — July 2025Honest accounting at fourteen years and five thousand posts. Tom Critchlow wrote in 2018 about networked writing — write about people you want to reach, the lowly hyperlink does the connecting. Seven years later: “in 14 years / 5,000 posts I’ve never had anyone (an author of something I’ve linked to) reach out to me.” And that’s fine. “I don’t blog as a way to fish for connections like that. I blog as a way of working with the garage door up.”
Like letter-writing?
constantine.name — March 2026The current question, fifteen years in. A historian writes about relics — things not intended for future generations, but valuable precisely because of that. “I’ve now been typing away on this blog for fifteen years and what I have posted here has varied wildly in that time… While it has occurred to me to wonder what happens to the blog after I die, it had never occurred to me to wonder if there might be actual value to historians here. I’m honestly not sure what to do with that. Do I keep posting? Do I close the garage door?” The thread ends with the live question.
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The Write Attitude: Sticking The Landing
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can preorder copies from all online retailers. Here’s a link to the ebook. The second edition of The Write Attitude is quite different […]…
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The Write Attitude: Sticking The Landing
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can preorder copies from all online retailers. Here’s a link to the ebook. The second edition of The Write Attitude is quite different […]…
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8 Creative Writing Hacks to Leapfrog Your Next Hurdle
Here are eight creative writing hacks to help novelists and short story writers finish their books and tackle their hard-to-hurdle obstacles. Written by Joe Walters, author of The Truth About Book Reviews.
The post 8 Creative Writing Hacks to Leapfrog Your Next Hurdle appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/06/05/8-creative-writing-hacks-to-leapfrog-your-next-hurdle/#Blog #OnWriting #Beingawriter #creativewriting #CreativeWritingHacks
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8 Creative Writing Hacks to Leapfrog Your Next Hurdle
Here are eight creative writing hacks to help novelists and short story writers finish their books and tackle their hard-to-hurdle obstacles. Written by Joe Walters, author of The Truth About Book Reviews.
The post 8 Creative Writing Hacks to Leapfrog Your Next Hurdle appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/06/05/8-creative-writing-hacks-to-leapfrog-your-next-hurdle/#Blog #OnWriting #Beingawriter #creativewriting #CreativeWritingHacks
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“Not just wording, but thinking. Not just noise, but signal.” Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it. alistapart.com/article/writ... #OldGold #WriteBetter #OnWriting #writing
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“Not just wording, but thinking. Not just noise, but signal.” Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it. alistapart.com/article/writ... #OldGold #WriteBetter #OnWriting #writing
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“Not just wording, but thinking. Not just noise, but signal.”
Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it.
https://alistapart.com/article/writing-is-thinking/ #OldGold #WriteBetter #OnWriting #writing
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“Not just wording, but thinking. Not just noise, but signal.”
Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it.
https://alistapart.com/article/writing-is-thinking/ #OldGold #WriteBetter #OnWriting #writing
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Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier
Book Review Resources is an indie author's guide on services that can make your review targeting journey easier
The post Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/05/20/book-review-resources-how-to-make-getting-reviews-easier/#Blog #BookMarketing #OnWriting #authormarketing #BookReviewResources
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Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier
Book Review Resources is an indie author's guide on services that can make your review targeting journey easier
The post Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/05/20/book-review-resources-how-to-make-getting-reviews-easier/#Blog #BookMarketing #OnWriting #authormarketing #BookReviewResources
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Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier
Book Review Resources is an indie author's guide on services that can make your review targeting journey easier
The post Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/05/20/book-review-resources-how-to-make-getting-reviews-easier/#Blog #BookMarketing #OnWriting #authormarketing #BookReviewResources
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Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier
Book Review Resources is an indie author's guide on services that can make your review targeting journey easier
The post Book Review Resources: How to Make Getting Reviews Easier appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/05/20/book-review-resources-how-to-make-getting-reviews-easier/#Blog #BookMarketing #OnWriting #authormarketing #BookReviewResources
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The Write Attitude: Doing The Work Amid The Noise
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Jamie Ferguson, T. Thorn Coyle, Dean Wesley Smith, Robert Jeschonek and others. Everything in this bundle […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/12/the-write-attitude-doing-the-work-amid-the-noise/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle
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The Write Attitude: Doing The Work Amid The Noise
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Jamie Ferguson, T. Thorn Coyle, Dean Wesley Smith, Robert Jeschonek and others. Everything in this bundle […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/12/the-write-attitude-doing-the-work-amid-the-noise/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle
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What does writing actually do to your thinking?
I’ve written a lot. Often daily on the blog since 2011, years of weekly writing for 7 for Sunday, and a daily journal that’s grown to thousands of pages. Until I started taking writing seriously, I thought writing was for capturing thoughts I already had. It turned out to be the opposite — most of what I think I think only exists once I write it down.
This thread is about what writing actually does to thinking. Not how to write, or what to write, or even why to write. Just about the strange thing that happens when you put words next to each other on a page — the ideas you didn’t know you had until they appeared, the gaps that showed up only because you tried to bridge them, the changes that happen to the mind in the act of clarification and articulation.
Writing matters
7 for Sunday — February 2025Open with the frosted window. Alain de Botton’s image: consciousness as looking through a frosted window — your own assumptions, beliefs, patterns. Writing is the act of clearing it; you’ll never see completely, but you can clean it enough to see something true.
The writing is easy
constantine.name — July 2020My version of the same thing: “The hard part is deciding what to share.” The cognitive work of writing — knowing what’s worth getting onto the page — is the actual practice. The hand writing or typing is the easy part.
Misunderstanding why
constantine.name — February 2025A writer’s therapist tells her she could just stop writing. “Stop?” she says, blinking in surprise. The lesson I’m still working to internalize: the writing part doesn’t suck — what makes the work hard is also what makes it worthwhile.
What You Hear Yourself Say
Open + Curious Field Note — with Mary JL RoweThe same insight applied to conversation. Speaking, like writing, isn’t the pipe through which understanding flows — it’s the place where understanding forms. Worth reading as the sister piece to everything else in this thread.
Two-fer from an introduction
constantine.name — September 2025Reading as the inverse process. I noticed Will Stone’s translation of Zweig used the word bestiality in a way that didn’t seem right; took me three minutes with an LLM to confirm Zweig had written Bestialität — German for brute savagery, no modern sexual connotation. Reading carefully is just writing-in-reverse — the same attention to what words actually do.
The real fear
constantine.name — March 2025Pressfield names the Master Fear: not failure, but fear of success — the fear that we can become the person we sense we truly are. This is why writing is hard, even many years in. The act keeps insisting that we become who we’re capable of being, and most of us it seems would rather not.
Manual labor of the mind
constantine.name — March 2025Closing with John Gregory Dunne: “Writing is essentially donkey work, manual labor of the mind. What makes it bearable are those moments — which sometimes can last for weeks, months — when the book takes over, takes on a life of its own, goes off in unexpected directions.” That’s what writing actually does. It starts as something you’re making and becomes something that’s making you back.
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Hoping For A Productive Summer
My class ended on Wednesday with a surprise A+ on a quiz I hadn’t studied for. That was lovely. A bunch of other things happened these past few weeks, all good, which I really can’t share except to say that they were marvelous. And Dean Wesley Smith and I celebrated our 40th anniversary on Monday. […]…
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Interview with an Editor: Liam Carnahan of Invisible Ink Editing
Joe Walters interviews Liam Carnahan of Invisible Ink Editing in this AWP edition of Interview with an Editor.
The post Interview with an Editor: Liam Carnahan of Invisible Ink Editing appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/05/07/liam-carnahan-of-invisible-ink-editing/#Blog #OnWriting #editing #howtoeditabook #InterviewwithanEditor
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The Write Attitude: Sounding Like Yourself
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Darcy Pattison, Douglas Smith, Ron Collins, Tracy Cooper-Posey and others. Everything in this Storybundle is exclusive, including […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/06/the-write-attitude-sounding-like-yourself/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #AddisonRae #Billboard
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The Write Attitude: Sounding Like Yourself
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Darcy Pattison, Douglas Smith, Ron Collins, Tracy Cooper-Posey and others. Everything in this Storybundle is exclusive, including […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/06/the-write-attitude-sounding-like-yourself/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #AddisonRae #Billboard
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Video Experiments
I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with short video. Sometimes I add audio, but every now and then I do something that’s imagery and text. I’ve done that here, with the video I did for Dean Wesley Smith’s current Kickstarter campaign. There was simply too much information to cram into a talky video, so […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/05/video-experiments/#OnWriting #ScienceFiction #ads #DeanWesleySmith #Kickstarter
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The Write Attitude: Churning It Out
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Robert T. Jeschonek, Andrea Pearson, J. Daniel Sawyer, Dean Wesley Smith, and ten more great writers. […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/26/the-write-attitude-churning-it-out/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle #WriteAttitude
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The Write Attitude: Churning It Out
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Robert T. Jeschonek, Andrea Pearson, J. Daniel Sawyer, Dean Wesley Smith, and ten more great writers. […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/26/the-write-attitude-churning-it-out/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle #WriteAttitude
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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"All first drafts are horrible" is a pacifying thought. If read from a certain angle, it almost looks like the first draft **should** be horrible. Maybe this thought started the idea that one should write the first draft quickly and carelessly. "You can always rewrite it later."
They don't build houses this way, do they?
