Mean Higher High Water

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Mean Higher High Water

Coming 2026! “Mean Higher High Water”

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What is Solarpunk?

Characters will still get murdered. The exciting question now is why?

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How to (Really) Finish a Story

For lack of a better name, I call it Story Paragraphing

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Let’s Practice Sondering

Sondering in the middle of Times Square would be disorienting and counter-productive

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10 Great Places to Write in NYC*

*Actually, just Manhattan. It’s hard enough to leave my apartment most days, much less my borough.

“Sufficiently Entertaining” Or, What To Do With Story Fragments

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“Sufficiently Entertaining” Or, What To Do With Story Fragments

Wanting to die very much, Mr. Clark slit his both wrists and then shot himself in the head.

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Ideas-o-matic

Meet the man in a bear suit walking from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

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Minor Characters, Briefly

Quick character sketches are a muscle.

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What’s That Noise?

Always end with a bang.

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The Power of Three

Do you have a trilogy inside of you?