craft

  • I’m not crazy, I’m a writer.

    Last night, my play had a public staged reading. People I didn’t know paid money to come and hear my work. They even laughed. It’s a comedy, so that was a relief. Watching your work being read is slightly surreal. My writing process is often very auditory; sometimes I feel like I am simply transcribing…

  • Intellect vs Intuition

    In studying writing, it occurs to me that there are two distinct parts to it: the intellectual and the intuitive.  (As a side benefit, that came out nicely alliterative.) The intellectual side refers to issues of craft—stuff that comes out when someone critiques your work. Things you discuss with an editor. In some ways, this…