Writing & Reading

Here you can find whatever web articles I’ve written about the world of writing, and about the life of the reader. Since the two things compliment one another it seems appropriate that they share this page.

On Writing

• A Life of Ideas (at Black Gate)
• The Cursed Story
• Flash: The Best Exercise (at Flash Fiction Chronicles)
• Focusing on FocusWriter (writing software)
• Frame Your Flash, Don’t Fence It In (at Flash Fiction Chronicles)
• Get Thee to a Slush Pile (three part article on reading magazine slush)
• How I Learned to Write Flash Without Even Knowing It (at Flash Fiction Chronicles)
• The Limitations of Flash Are Its Strengths (at Flash Fiction Chronicles)
• The Many Voices of Flash (at Flash Fiction Chronicles)
• On Thud and Blunder — 30 Years Later (at Black Gate)
• Should Beginning Writers Blog?
• Vanishing Print Zines
• Write Or Die and Darkroom (writing software)
• Writing Book Reviews — How and Why (at Black Gate)

On Reading

• A Good Haul
• Books As Sacred Objects
• Books Best Appreciated in their Natural Habitat (at Black Gate)
• The Eternal Appeal of Story
• How to Read 462 Books a Year (at Black Gate)
• How to Read More Books (at Black Gate)
• In Praise of Escape (at Black Gate)
• Late to the Party, As Always (at Black Gate)
• Making a List, Checking it Twice (at Black Gate)
• No Books For You
• On Bookmarks (at Black Gate)
• Patronage, Short Fiction, and the Online Audience in the Age of Web 2.0
• Specialist and Generalist Readers (at Black Gate)
• Thank You, D&D (at Black Gate)
• Two Posts on the Future of Bookstores and Book Publishing