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Writing: Craft & Grammar

• 5 Things I Learned Writing The Book Man (2020)
• Basics of Beta Reading (2018)
• Commas, Semi-Colons, & Colons, Oh My: Part 1 – Basics (2020)
• Commas, Semi-Colons, & Colons, Oh My: Part 2 – Commas (2020)
• Commas, Semi-Colons, & Colons, Oh My: Part 3 – Semi-Colons & Colons (2020)
• Commas, Semi-Colons, & Colons, Oh My: Part 4 – Breaking the Rules (2020)
• A Crash Course in Passive Voice, Part 1: What It’s Not (2020)
• A Crash Course in Passive Voice, Part 2: What It Is (2020)
• A Crash Course in Passive Voice, Part 3: When to Use It (2020)
• Em Dashes Are Friends, Not Food…or Whatever (2020)
• Let’s Talk About Adjectives & Adverbs (2020)
• Misunderstood Writing Advice (2017)
• Wait for it… (Ellipses) (2020)
• #WIPjoy 15: Beating writers block (2018)
• #WritersInQuarantine (2020)

Reading

• 2019 in Books (2019)
• The first-page test, or “I probably rate books too highly on GoodReads” (2018)
• For people who want to read more (2018)
• This is my genre (to read), tell me yours (2018)

Cooking

• Braised Chicken in Tomato Sauce (2016)
• Chicken Gnocchi, NaNoWriMo Style (2016)
• I liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Also, Banana Bread (2017)
• A Romantic Dinner (2017)
• Tuna Portabella Pasta Sauce (2016)

DIY

• Candy Cane Christmas Nails (2016)
• Previously Half-Assed Pinteresting (2016)
• Thrift Shop Earring Hairclips (2016)

Travel

• Antiques on the Lane (2016)
• Boston Adventuring (2016)
• Chagrin Falls (2016)
• Japan Adventuring (2017)
• Mackinac Attack (2016)
• South Bass Island Adventuring (2016)

School

• How I got my agent master’s degrees (2021)

Writing: Project Talk

NaNoWriMo 2016

• All NaNos’ Eve
• Midway Mark (sort of)
• Wait, it’s December already?

NaNoWriMo 2017

• Fortunately, unfortunately: NaNoWriMo Edition

NaNoWriMo 2019

• The Midway Point: A Camp NaNo Update
• Let the Tantrums Commence: A Camp NaNo Update
• I Won??? A Camp NaNo Update

NaNoWriMo 2020

• Campfire Singalong: A Camp NaNo Update
• The obligatory NaNoWriMo wrap-up

The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

• Ill-Advised Writing Contests Are Good for Drafting (2017)
• The Chosen Grandma…or something (2017)
• Writing: Live! (2017)
• A Year of the Chosen Grandma (2018)
• In which I am revising while drafting (2018)
• Sudden Death (2018)
• Chapter One: Finally Done (2019)
• And now, some memes (2019)
• I swear this is a Funny Story (2019)
• E=MC^Edna (2020)
• Revisions, Ho! (2020)
• Stop! It’s Query Time (2020)
• Live from the trenches, it’s querying updates! (2022)

The Many Buried Things of Peter Shaughnessy

• This is where I thrash talk about Author Mentor Match (2022)

Hungry Girls

• Fluff Scenes: How does one even? (2020)

Poetry

• In which I seriously failed at Poetry, but that’s okay (2018)
• We now interrupt this program for some poetry talk (2019)
• In which there is a published poem and (almost) the end of a draft (2019)

General Project Talk

• In which my writing has improved (2018)
• How Lord of the Rings still influences my fantasy (2019)
• My Author Brand™ is getting weird (2021)
• Life since April and other things, which sounds like a YA title but isn’t (2021)
• An anthologies announcement (2022)

Year-End Wrap-Ups

• 2019 Wrap-Up: Everyone Else Does These Posts, So Maybe I Should, Too
• A “Fuck You, 2020” Wrap-Up
• A 2021 Wrap-Up Post that is still a bit “fuck you,” but not as much as 2020

Miscellaneous

• Art Spam! 1.0 (2018)
• “Carpe the fuck out of this diem” (2018)
• I liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive (again) (2017)
• In Case You Were Wondering (2016)
• In which I shout a lot about Black Panther (2018)
• New Car November (2016)
• The Store (Guest Post by my dad) (2019)
• Whoops, it’s been a year (2019)

You can also find a list of my Revision Division craft posts below! For more topics from Revision Division, visit editor Kimberly Hunt’s blog.

• 3 Easy Ways to Tackle Characterization
• Deep Point of View
• Does your character arc cover three basic components?
• Don’t Panic: A Querying Author’s Guide to Query Materials

• An Introduction to Dramatic Foils
• Manuscript Formatting
• Narrative Voice
• Said Is Dead (or…maybe not)
• Tackling the Dreaded “Show, Don’t Tell”
• Why It’s So Commonly Confused: Homophones