What Kind of Year has it Been?

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All told, 2025 was a pretty good year. Not the best, far from the worst. It was the usual hectic mix of activities and travel, work and writing, and family and friends. Of the latter, the loss of my dear friend Peter David loomed large all year. We got a heads-up just days before he […]

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Plotting

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After all the time I have written prose and taught story structure and analysis, I would have thought that composing an outline for my first original novel would be pretty straightforward. Instead, I find myself working in fits and starts, trying to find the throughline for the story. I had the inciting incident as the […]

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