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The one thing about keeping a journal–your subconscious leaks onto the page. That is, if you let it, which you should. This means dealing with

I’m dipping into my journals in order to write about writing, looking for the notes on old manuscripts to see what tricks of the trade

Memory is a tricky thing, so I’m really glad I’ve kept journals for forty years. I’m a detailed chronicler—forty-five tomes, about 1, 480 pages of

In the middle of writing the first notes for the novel The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, I recorded the above dream. My son

Outlines can be dicey, to say the least. Here’s my first fear: if I write out an entire outline for a story, will I feel

According to my journals, I wrote the first notes for my novel The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones on August 2, 1996. “No title

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