Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabins
The author and editor on making zines, literary cabins, and planning volume two.
Counter Craft
fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books, other things
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Stitching Up the Creature; Or, the Horrors of Revision
Some recent links plus an update on how my horror novel revisions are going
Processing: How Paul Tremblay Wrote Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
The author on writing horror and comedy, unusual narrative approaches, and pouring AI anxieties into fiction.
Principles of Plotting Part IV: Intersection and Redirection
The fourth entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation
The third entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
There Are More than Five POVs
A little craft rant on points of view in fiction.
The Ghostwriter in the Machine, LLM Author Psychosis, and Other Saturday Sundries
Some more AI thoughts and other odds and ends
Processing: How Hannah Lillith Assadi Wrote Paradiso 17
The author on writing through grief, the ghost of setting, and adding a layer of dream to reality
LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further)
Quick thoughts on the Granta AI scandal and a bunch of other recent AI scandals
Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing
Chatting with John Warner about the state of literary magazines, freelancing, Substack, and vanishing writing careers.
On Making Money (Or Not) Writing
Plus, more thoughts on book reviews.