Here is the semi-organized list. I will add a link to this table of contents in my link list. Then, as I add more posts, I'll update this page. Also, I will alphabetize and make some kind of visual cues to make it easier to find stuff.
Advice to New Writers: How Can I Get Good at That (or You're So Talented)
Advice to New Writers: Art and Competitiveness
Advice to New Writers: Top Ten Rookie Mistakes (rough draft)
Advice to New Writers: Top Ten Rookie Mistakes: the Behavior Edition
Advice to New Writers: Advice to Teen Writers
Advice to New Writers: Quick Story Telling Advice to Newbies
Awards: Brief Hugo Thoughts
Awards: The Nebulas
Awards: Last Day to Rec for This Year's Nebula
Awards: The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Characterization: A Characterization Exercise
Characterization: Creating Character: Background Thoughts and an Exercise
Conflict in Stories
Conventions: Rain Forest Writers' Village
Conventions: ConDuit: Day One
Conventions: ConDuit: Day Two
Conventions: When You Just NEED a Convention Fix and Can't Have It
Conventions: The Never Ending Convention
Conventions: Doing a Reading
Craft: The Importance of Voice and Style
Craft: Features of Good Stories
Craft: A Powerful Demonstration on Writing Dialogue
Craft: Get the Details Right and Suspension of Disbelief Will Follow
Craft: Punctuating Dialogue and an Exercise
Craft: Writing Scenically
Craft: "Whad Ya Say?" Writing Dialogue
Craft: Irony
Craft: Writing From Your Head and Word Exuberance
Craft: Readers Deserve a Bigger Payoff than the Effort They Spend Reading
Craft: Plugging Into Cultural Power Sources (connotation and allusion)
Craft: Frightening a Reader
Craft: Improving Your Writing While You are Stuck
Craft: Mirror Language Writing Exercise
Craft: Writing a Conclusion (that works)
Craft: Creating Mood or Atmosphere
Craft: Flash Fiction
Craft: "Natural Narratives" and Literature
Craft: Revision and Editing Manuscripts
Craft: A Note on Writing Rules
Craft: The Well Tempered Sentence
Craft: Writing for Young Adults
Craft: Transitions: Getting from Point A to Point C
Craft: Handling the Passage of Time in a Story
Craft: A Brief Poetry Lesson That Applies to Fiction
Craft: When Characters Say F#@%
Craft: An Odd Measure of Story Quality
Craft: Funny You Should Say That (or is it?)
Craft: Every Rule Has Exceptions
Craft: Technique: Writing Descriptively
Craft: Writing About High Schoolers
Craft: Making the Abstract Concrete
Craft: Writing About Grief
Craft: What do Writers Know About Writing Anyways?
Craft: What I Learned From Reading the Slush
Day Job Articles: a complete table of contents of my articles at The Fix On-Line
Day Job Articles Archive
Editing: The Joy of Acceptance Letters
Editing: Reading Slush, False Positives, and Ghost Whistles
Editing: Reply to an Interesting Query Letter
Editing: Editing Report #1
Editing: Editing Report #1 addendum
Editing: Editing Report #2
Editing: Editing Report #4
Editing: Editing Report #5
Editing: Editing Report #6: the Rush to Familiarity
Editing: Editing Report #7: Closing in on the End Game
Editing: What the Writer Side of Me Gets From Slush Reading
Horror: What Constitutes a Horror Story
Humor: Writing Epic Fantasy
Humor: Writerly Thoughts
Humor: Wannabe Strategies
Humor: Writer Wannabes
Humor: The Editor's Dilemma
Humor: The Writer's Dilemma
Humor: The Editorial Meeting
Humor: SFWA on the Moon
Life of a Writer: Two Decades of Writing, But It's Not the Day Job: a Retrospective
Life of a Writer: Discipline
Life of a Writer: How to Have a Successful Signing
Life of a Writer: Why Writing is Good for Us
Life of a Writer: Making a Living
Life of a Writer: Influences, Reading Preferences, and Staying Current
Life of a Writer: Two Songs That Make Me Want to Write
Life of a Writer: Running and Writing
Life of a Writer: Why I Do It: a Dozen Reasons
Life of a Writer: Niggle, a Writer's Aspirations, and the Day Job
Life of a Writer: Books That Twist and Shape
Life of a Writer: Books That Shaped Me
Life of a Writer: Science Fiction and The Heart of Darkness
Life of a Writer: Why Short Stories?
Life of a Writer: Classic Foot in Mouth Moment
Life of a Writer: Post Apocalyptic Fiction and 9/11
Life of a Writer: Occasionally You Get Feedback
Life of a Writer: A Quick Musical Interlude
Life of a Writer: Busy Days
Life of a Writer: Juggling
Life of a Writer: In Praise of Locus Magazine
Life of a Writer: Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
Life of a Writer: Another Literary Figure Weighs in On Writing
Life of a Writer: Illness and Productivity
Life of a Writer: Snippets and Unofficial Mentors
Life of a Writer: Being Professional
Life of a Writer: Who Are You Talking To?
Life of a Writer: A Short Story Career Considered Midstream
Life of a Writer: Back in the Car
Life of a Writer: No Man is an Island (unless he is)
Life of a Writer: Evolution of a Reader
Life of a Writer: Dreams
Plot: Building Plot Through Repetition, Reflection and Repercussions
Plot: The Hero's Journey
Plot: Plot Suggestions
Plot: Writing a Conclusion (that works)
Plot: Conflict in Stories
Plot: The Plot Daisy
Plot: The Seven Sentence Story
Plot: The Seven Sentence Story Contest
Plot: The Seven Sentence Story Winners
Plot: A Story in an Hour Lecture Notes
Podcasts
Point of View: Meditations on Point of View
Point of View: Theory
Point of View: Practical Exercise in Point of View
Print on Demand
Process: It's Conceptual Barriers All the Way Up
Process: How I Write a Short story
Process: The Mind as Weasel: Writing the Rough Draft
Process: Pinched Writing--Writing in the Available Time
Process: Fooling the Muse
Process: Story is a Deer in the Headlights
Process: How to Finish a Novel in Nine Months: the Teacher Edition
Process: On Writing Models
Process: Wandering Around With a Story in My Head
Process: Generating Science Fiction Ideas Painlessly
Process: Writing Hard Science Fiction
Process: Writing Process: Mind/Unmind
Process: Writing Horror
Process: My Uneasy Relationship With Being Academic and Artistic
Process: Research and Its Impact on Writing
Process: Ideas--an Embarrassment of Riches
Process: Two Writers on Process
Process: Why Writing Takes So Long
Process: Psychological Triggers
Process: Where Do Story Ideas Come From?
Process: A Small Musical Discovery
Process: Story End Game
Process: Getting Started: Exercises
Process: Practice and Theory of the First Sentence
Process: Focused Persistence
Process: Writing While Not Sitting Down
Process: What I Started in Junior High That Helps My Writing Today
Process: The Highlighter and Improving Writing
Process: When Do You Write?
Process: Your Pace or Mine?
Process: Our Complicated Relationship to Writing
Process: Letting a Story Go Fallow
Process: Where Do You Find Out Stuff About Writing?
Process: My Best Books on Writing
Process: A Great Writing Environment
Process: The Weirdness of the Right Writing Environment
Process: "She Goes Away"
Process: Final Edit
Process: Editing
Publishing: Best Publishing Lesson Ever
Publishing: Cover Letters and Suggestions for Revision Revisited
Publishing: There's Too Many Writers. Oh, No!
Publishing: Old Stuff vs. New Stuff
Publishing: A Thought of Publishing's Good Old Days
Publishing: Why I Think Short Fiction Print Magazines Will Survive
Publishing: Snail Mail or E-Mail Submissions?
Publishing: Science Fiction Talks to Itself
Publishing: Short Story Collections
Publishing: Publishing in SF/F/H
Publishing: A Great Signing and an Interesting Strategy
Publishing: Selling Novels
Rejections: The Gap, the Doubt, and the Damage Done
Rejections: How Long Should a Rejection Take?
Rejections: A Rejection Letter and Why Editors Use Form Rejects
Rejections: A Web Site Devoted to Rejections
Rejections: Stories We Don't Want to See
Revision: Revising a Novel: Order of Operations
Revision: Revision and Editing of a Manuscript
Revision: Principles of Revision
Revision: Cover Letters and Suggestions for Revision Revisited
Reviews: Short Fiction Reviews
Reviews: Book Reviews
Reviews: A Nice Review, and a (no it's not too early) Christmas List
Setting: Leveraging the Internet for Verisimilitude in Setting Descriptions
Setting: Writing About Landscapes
Setting
Setting: Thoughts on Setting
SFWA: SFWA Outreach
SFWA: SFWA on the Moon
Story Analysis: What I Learned: "Blood Music"
Story Analysis: What I Learned: "A Cabin on the Coast"
Story Analysis: What I Learned: "The Tomb"
Story Analysis: Harry Turtledove and Alternate History
Theme: What's Your Story Worth? An Abstract Post
Titles: You know, "Wha' Cha Call It?" Practice and Theory of Titles
Titles: Is Your Title a Best Seller?
Titles: When Titles Suggest Stories
Voice: The Difficulty and Ease of Voice
Voice: Listen to Your Language
Voice: Voice Revisited
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busy - Current Music:"Rocket Man," Elton John
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