What is the Point of Substack? Making Money? Quality? Community? A Substack Writer’s Thoughts on the GameThere’s a consistent debate within the Substack community about what the actual purpose of the platform is. In my mind it’s a fairly...
Writers Versus The World: How Writers are Different from Everyone ElseThink of any daring, talented and interesting writer—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Didion, Sontag, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Baldwin,...
The Problem with Claudine Gay: Harvard as Test Case for RacismFor those of you not paying attention, Claudine Gay is the current (hopefully temporary) president of Harvard University. She’s a Black...
How Book Editing Works: A Guide for Writers and Anyone Interested in EditingI’m a published writer and developmental editor; I’ve been doing both for around 14 years. Along the way I successfully edited many books...
Common Misconceptions about Writing: Things We’ve been Told that Aren’t Necessarily [Always] True about The Craft
Video-Recorded Conversation Between Me and James F. Richardson, PhD, on The Merits or Lack Thereof of "Individualism"
What is the Point of Substack? Making Money? Quality? Community? A Substack Writer’s Thoughts on the Game