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Motivation is a rumor. What gets a book written is a chair, an hour, and a sentence you left unfinished on purpose.
Read · 3 minHank GarnerMoon over the treeline
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Motivation is a rumor. What gets a book written is a chair, an hour, and a sentence you left unfinished on purpose.
Read · 3 minMost abandoned novels stop somewhere between chapter twelve and chapter twenty. Here is why, and three lines of homework that usually get them moving again.
Read · 3 minWhere the stories actually come from, and a small daily habit for catching them before they get away.
Read · 3 minHow to put the hardest thing you have lived through into fiction without handing the reader a diary.
Read · 3 minHow a real town and the real people in it become a place a reader can live in, without anybody recognizing themselves at church.
Read · 3 minWhat this corner of the site is for, and what you'll find here.
Read · 1 minA busy year on the backroads. Here is what came out, in order, and where each one starts.
Read · 1 minNothing on this porch yet. Try another chair.