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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.

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The Writing Cooperative

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David Rhoades

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As a 33-year-old unpublished author, I have to ask: is there middle ground between writing to yourself and writing for the market?

Mar 18, 2024

Reconsidering the Dream of Being a Full-Time Novelist

Mar 18, 2024

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The Writing Cooperative

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David Rhoades

Creating Believable Characters Who Generate Conflict Naturally

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

Mar 10, 2024

Creating Believable Characters Who Generate Conflict Naturally

Mar 10, 2024

David Rhoades

All About the B Team

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

Sep 20, 2020

All About the B Team

Sep 20, 2020

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David Rhoades

Writing Like a Worker

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

Sep 11, 2020

Writing Like a Worker

Sep 11, 2020

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The Shortform

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David Rhoades

The Theory of Change in Science Fiction vs. Fantasy

The aesthetic differences between the two are ideological

Nov 9, 2021

The Theory of Change in Science Fiction vs. Fantasy

Nov 9, 2021

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The Writing Cooperative

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David Rhoades

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.

Nov 13, 2021

You’re Asking Too Much of Your First Drafts

Nov 13, 2021

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Writers’ Blokke

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David Rhoades

Want to Write More Often? Consider Being Less Efficient.

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

Jun 21, 2022

Want to Write More Often? Consider Being Less Efficient.

Jun 21, 2022

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The Writing Cooperative

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David Rhoades

How an Award-Winning Author Revises His Work

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

Jun 26, 2022

Hands shaping clay on a wooden table.

Jun 26, 2022

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The Writing Cooperative

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David Rhoades

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.

Dec 7, 2021

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

Dec 7, 2021

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