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Alone time is necessary. Alone time is perilous.

There's Going to be a Great Rejoicing.

Unlikely Heroes

Be of Good Courage. Be of Good Cheer.

Short Sentences and Implication

Focus, Create, Connect: A New Writing Retreat

Gratitude and Kingfisher Sight

Concerning Short Sentences

Forget About Flow.

The Stories We Live In

Where Scary Words Come From

I'll be at the Southern Festival of Books

The Next Telephone Pole

Let Nouns and Verbs Carry the Freight

The Eye Is an Organ of Judgment

Painting the Alligator Green

Muscles, Chipmunks, Cheese, Neighbors

Boredom and Creativity

Writing Dialogue that Sounds Less "Written"

Loving the Reader by Serving the Work

Why Work?

Dorothy Sayers on the Limits of Detective Fiction

Problem-Solving vs. Doing a New Thing

On Receiving (and Ignoring) Criticism

Check this out.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in heaven?

Things just got swampier: Wilderking Books 2 & 3

Working out of abundance and courage

Prudence and Cunning

Sit right there.

I can help get your manuscript in shape.

Knowledge is power. France is bacon.

On Getting a Late Start

The Gospel Uses of Comedy

Writers Taking Other Writers Seriously

Juggernauts, Dreadnoughts, Belly-Buttons

Let's talk about point of view

Typos! Cicadas! A Moonwalking Bear!

Short Story Summer Camp is back!

I'm of two minds. So are you.

A Note to Mothers (and Those Who Love Them)

Focus and Attention

"I've seen a million faces, and I've rocked them all."

Pointing and Calling

Contradictory Proverbs

Do you need help with a book-length manuscript?

Gamble, Gambol, Ham, and Gambrel

What ELSE You Need to Know About Commas

What You Need to Know About Commas

Make Friends with the Inner Critic

Defenestrate, Pulchritude, Skunk

It's going to be a very swampy summer.

The Four Principal Parts

A truly terrible love letter.

Smoking gun.

The Market Economy, The Gift Economy

Peculiarity. Idiosyncrasy. Idiocy.

C.S. Lewis loved weather.

"Dear Writer Friend"

Habits and Hopes