Written between November 1 and November 7, 2024, please enjoy these hastily assembled and long-winded essays on “craft,” writing, and whatever else came to mind. Free PDF and e-pub downloads below.

The essays include:

  1. The Pleasures of Constraint: Self-imposed Limitations as a Creative Tool

  2. You Are Doing It Wrong: Some Opinionated and Judgmental Thoughts About Second Person

  3. Who is Telling Whom What and Why? The Narrator as a Character

  4. In Praise of Jagged Edges and Loose Ends: A Necessarily Incomplete Argument for “Productive Ambiguity”

  5. Implications, Glimpses, and Gongs: One Approach to Writing Flash Fiction

  6. Writing in Tough Times: Some Whys, Some Whats, and Some Ways

  7. Authority, Confidence, Control … Maybe A Potentially Hubristic Inquiry into “Voice”