Craft Work

On playing god

Or omniscience for atheists and others

Nov 9 • 

Craft Work

5

October 2025

Three Ways with First-Person

Also introducing a new mode I like to call: 'first-person reflective'

Oct 9 • 

Craft Work

27

7

4

September 2025

Free-indirect, Actually

In which I try to explain what James Wood meant

Sep 10 • 

Craft Work

6

1

2

August 2025

How to 'do' nothing in fiction

The hack to writing passive characters

Aug 10 • 

Craft Work

7

1

July 2025

What is a metaphor?

Some advice on writing metaphors

Jul 10 • 

Craft Work

3

5

June 2025

Putting your characters under pressure

Why action matters in fiction

Jun 10 • 

Craft Work

12

2

1

May 2025

The Sentence in Time

Sentences as the building blocks of story

May 10 • 

Craft Work

7

5

1

April 2025

Where do characters come from?

Characters as parts of ourselves we don’t fully understand.

Apr 10 • 

Craft Work

5

2

March 2025

How to start a novel

The beginning as a way in an other ways to think about your opening

Mar 9 • 

Craft Work

12

11

February 2025

Why are so many writers afraid to describe their characters’ emotions?

The Drama of Feelings in Fiction

Feb 9 • 

Craft Work

5

5

1

January 2025

The one real rule of writing

Craft Work (Volume 1)

Jan 10 • 

Craft Work

14

5

March 2024