I hate editing

I haven’t felt like a writer in months For the past few weeks I have been working on a rewrite – slash – edit – slash – reworking of a novel of mine called Fixer, about which you have likely heard almost nothing because I haven’t discussed it except in passing before now. At the…

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Love letter to David Simon

Television as it should be We decided a few weeks back that it was time to introduce the children to The Wire, which is also referred to in our household as The Best Show Ever Made For Television.  (There will be no arguments on this point.  If you have seen it and disagree, we might…

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A brief outline

Don’t try this at home I know a lot about how other people write, mainly because of the advice I’ve gotten about writing over the years.  That’s almost unavoidable, because writers talk to each other quite a bit, or at least more than practitioners do in most professions.  One reason for this is that writing…

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