Counter Craft

A collage of Eadweard Muybridge photographs If you missed it, my flash fiction story from the slickly designed and sharply edited zine was republished on the Thirty Cabins Substack along with an interview.

Author photo by Joanna Morrissey Processing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing processes behind their work.

Hi all, You may have noticed my Counter Craft posts have slowed a little the last couple of months.

Processing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing process behind their work.

Katsushika Hokusai from Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji) The Principle of Principles Hello readers, I’m pushing through to finish this Principles of Plotting series, so this Part IV post immediately follows “The Principles of Plotting P…

Illustration of a “plotting room” on a Royal Navy World War II K-class destroyer Director Control Tower Hello readers, Every couple of weeks, I get a nice note or restack about my Principles of Plotting series.

Hello readers, You may have noticed I didn’t post a Counter Craft article last week, which is because I spent the last couple weeks in a furious creative haze to finish up a draft of my forthcoming haunted house novel Haunted Hills.

This is going to be a more scattered post than usual as I’ve spent recent weeks in the novel mines finishing up my forthcoming haunted houses (yes plural) novel Haunted Hills.

Author photo by Jordan Ledy Processing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing process behind their work.

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) For all of the truckloads of money and advanced technology behind LLMs, their primary achievement so far may be in revealing how low the bar is in seemingly every field.

From The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Yes, I acknowledge this is a bit of an overly dramatic image choice.)

Albrecht Dürer circa 1512–1525 Two tangentially related topics this Friday: Making and Not Making Money Writing I was interviewed by for the How I Make Money Writing Substack.

“Ugh, we’re doing math in a literary newsletter?”

From The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard circa 1767–68 What Are the Principles of Plotting?

German woodcut from the early 1500s This post has two parts.

Housekeeping Hello all, I’m excited to be joining the contributors of ’s very cool Thirty Cabins project, a collection of flash stories inspired by the 1918 book Sunset’s Cabin Plan Book.

Quick reminder: I’m running a subscription incentive (free book) for the month of March.

Yesterday, Alexandra Alter at The New York Times broke the news that Hachette has canceled a book, Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, because the author used LLMs to write the book: “Hachette remains committed to protecting original creative expression and storytel…

There were a couple pieces of book world discourse over the last week that I wanted to respond to without writing entire posts about them.

Author photo by Nina Subin Processing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing process behind their work.