Reading Report: October 2025
This Month's reading report features craft articles from Ilona Andrews and C.L. Polk, a 2,000 year-old copper skeletong and 100 word memoirs.
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Spiral Story - Rough Draft 1
Rough draft time. My goal at this stage is to get words on paper, whether that's in a notebook or digitally.
Spiral Story - Outline
In our last Proof of Work I spent some time describing the ideation process for a short story. This time I’m going to outline it.
Reading Report: September 2025
This month's reading report has a fish committing credit card fraud, doomscroll the game, and some ominous mail from the red cross.
Spiral Story: Ideation
Inspired by Meander, Spiral, Explode I'm writing a short story with a spiral plot structure, from idea to final draft.
Firing Chekov's Gun - A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow contains a set of literal Chekov’s guns, but many of the other objects, people, and places in the story set up the ending. So let's talk about how this type if story is built.
How to start (and keep) a writers group
If you are looking to start your own writers group, for whatever reason, these are my notes on what I would do if I had to start a new group today.
Reading Report: August 2025
Hello subscribers! This is something of an experiment. I wanted to try
Rest like you mean it
We interrupt this program to remind you to rest.
Books for Beginning and Beginning Again
Four books for getting started or getting back to basics.
Notes on Vocation
Webster defines of vocation as “a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action” or as “the work in which a person is employed. Occupation.” Murikami wrote about the second but what I wanted to hear about was the first – the calling to write.
Maybe plan to fail too...
My question to you today is what’s the plan when things don’t go to plan?