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Mar 24, 2024

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Reflections on Craft & Storytelling

Articles on writing methods, storytelling techniques, and other craft-related topics.

David Rhoades
in
The Writing Cooperative

Reconsidering the Dream of Being a Full-Time Novelist

As a 33-year-old unpublished author, I have to ask: is there middle ground between writing to yourself and writing for the market?

7 min readMar 18, 2024

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Reconsidering the Dream of Being a Full-Time Novelist

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David Rhoades
in
The Writing Cooperative

Creating Believable Characters Who Generate Conflict Naturally

How Showtime’s Billions perfectly illustrates a Hungarian playwright’s approach to generating conflict in fiction.

5 min readMar 10, 2024

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Creating Believable Characters Who Generate Conflict Naturally

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David Rhoades

All About the B Team

Fiction about the “wrong” heroes challenges how we interpret history

9 min readSep 20, 2020

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All About the B Team

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David Rhoades

Writing Like a Worker

Showing up with a laborer’s mindset is your most important task

2 min readSep 11, 2020

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Writing Like a Worker

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David Rhoades
in
The Shortform

The Theory of Change in Science Fiction vs. Fantasy

The aesthetic differences between the two are ideological

1 min readNov 9, 2021

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The Theory of Change in Science Fiction vs. Fantasy

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David Rhoades
in
The Writing Cooperative

You’re Asking Too Much of Your First Drafts

Your most important task is ensuring your first draft gets to exist in the first place.

3 min readNov 13, 2021

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You’re Asking Too Much of Your First Drafts

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David Rhoades
in
Writers’ Blokke

Want to Write More Often? Consider Being Less Efficient.

There’s a surprising benefit to a slower, more labor-intensive writing method.

4 min readJun 21, 2022

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Want to Write More Often? Consider Being Less Efficient.

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David Rhoades
in
The Writing Cooperative

How an Award-Winning Author Revises His Work

Revision is as creatively rewarding as drafting, if you pay attention to the right things.

3 min readJun 26, 2022

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Hands shaping clay on a wooden table.

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David Rhoades
in
The Writing Cooperative

Write More, Struggle Less: Writing Workflows for an ADHD Brain

How I built a writing workflow using Drafts & Ulysses that doesn’t rely on “discipline” or willpower.

14 min readDec 7, 2021

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Image of the author achieving untold levels of power through self-acceptance and a couple subscriptions.

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David Rhoades

David Rhoades

Working class writer, editor, and photographer. Journalist for Socialist Alternative. Writes essays, horror, and science fiction.

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