This post marks eleven years of “Revel and Rant ~ A Column on the Craft of Fiction.” 

Every other Wednesday, with a handful of exceptions along the way, I’ve offered a few hundred words, give or take, on the craft of writing fiction and the writing life. I started this series during  grad school as a way to capture and share what I was learning.

I’ve thought about taking a break from this project. Stepping away and reimagining a new blogpost series on another topic or aspect of my work.

Here are the reasons I’m not going to do that:

• • Stopping is a risk because starting again often takes much longer and is much more difficult than ever imagined. Momentum is easily undervalued.
  • I have faithful readers and I’d like to think they’d be disappointed. If it’s in one’s power not to disappoint, why do so?
  • I’m still learning. This cache of blogposts represents everything I’ve learned thus far about the writing life and the craft of writing fiction. I see no point in capping it here.
  • I have two ideas laying here on my desk for—what I like to think will be interesting—blogposts: a comparison of being in character on stage and embodying a character as a writer, and a riff on a drawing instructor’s advise about revision, ‘you erase more than you draw.’

Here’s to the next decade of blogposts and continuing the conversation together.