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To the Mattresses: Today, I fought like hell with chapter ten. It was out and out fisticuffs of the cerebral kind.

At the moment, I am juggling myriad job applications, my novel, other free-lance writing gigs, editing works by my writing partner, and...

My novel currently logs in at 38,193 words. The words, ostensibly, all go together and make sense when read from start to finish.

I have been fighting with chapter 10 all week. I write something and the writing responds by being banal, redundant, and verbose. How...

RABBIT HOLE! While doing research for some writing projects not related to my novel, I ended up falling down a rabbit hole with several hour

WORD COUNTS. I’ve been thinking a lot today about word counts. Both in the sense of what was created in a day (my output) as well as using w

People are surprised to learn that I write every day for at least four hours, M-F and sometimes on the weekend too. Specifically, two...

Even though I’ve been writing in some form for ages, I am new to writing. Learning to write in school is miles apart from writing a...