Finished chapter 5 of CURSE last Saturday. Huzzah! The writing is a blast, even though it still requires work. Along those lines, I’ve been meaning for some time to write up the techniques and principles I use when drafting. So I think I’m going to do a semi-regular post on a weekly basis where I share these
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James Maxey is a writer I admire. For his work ethic. For the quality of his prose. For his imagination. His story “To Know All Things That Are In The Earth” is one of my favorites. So you can be sure I was pleased to find and read this today. I will say, in utter
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James Maxey loved met and loved a woman named Laura. She told him she had breast cancer. He didn’t care. Later when the disease advanced, he offered to marry her. She turned him down, but not because she didn’t love him back. The disease progressed. His posts about this experience are tender and poignant. When you read
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You already know how I feel about writerly rules. So when I read James Maxey’s “The Only Law of Literature,” I had to share it. I want to quote the whole thing here. But I’ll resist and quote only the conclusion. [In response to critiquing stories that don’t work for you] All the literary analysis of
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First of all, if I could look like Stephen R. Covey does in that picture, I would shave my head and never look back. Holy moly, I love that picture. But that’s not why I’m writing. James Maxey is a writer who I respect and whose comments on the boards of Codex Writers often make me think or
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