This page collects posts about the craft and business of writing fiction, organized by topic. It covers my personal writing process, thoughts on storytelling and worldbuilding, the research and reading that feeds my work, and the practical side of indie publishing.

My Writing Process

• Frequently Seen Questions About Writing — an overview of questions I see come up repeatedly, with answers that worked for me
• State of the Dictator, 2025 — a full walkthrough of my dictation-to-manuscript workflow
• Notebooks — the analogue side of the writing process
• How to Use Claude.ai for Cleaning Up Transcriptions
• Weird Wednesday: A Warning about Dictation Cleanup with Claude.ai
• Weird Wednesday: The Sorceries of Python and AI Combined — automating parts of the transcription pipeline

Discovery Writing & Craft Theory

• Weird Wednesday: Discovery Writing — on writing without a rigid outline, and what that actually looks like in practice
• The Role of Religion in My Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Likeable and Unlikeable Main Characters
• Thoughts for Weird Wednesday: The Measure of a Muse

Research & Influences

For the real-world inspirations behind each of my series — including the Where Did That Come From? posts on settings and characters — see The Worlds of Jaglion Press.

The posts below reflect research into the mystery genre that feeds into my forthcoming 1920s cozy mystery series.

• Golden Age Mystery Writers: A Quick Guide to the Big Guns
• The Mysteries of Msgr. Knox
• Old School Mysteries: Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning
• Weird Wednesday: Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Owens
• The Novels of Marie Belloc Lowndes: The Lodger
• The Novels of Marie Belloc Lowndes: Hercule Popeau and Various Innocents Abroad
• The Novels of Marie Belloc Lowndes: The Ones That End Where Agatha Christie Begins

Publishing & Marketing Notes

• Writer PSA — on keeping your notes organized (learn from my mistakes)
• Due Disclosure: Me and AI and Marketing — transparency about how I use AI tools in the publishing side of my work
• Blurbing With Claude AI: Slaying a Tyrant
• Hunter Healer King 3 Blurb — behind the scenes on blurb writing for the trilogy finale
• So, Novelcrafter… — a review of the Novelcrafter writing tool and how it fits (or doesn’t) into my workflow
• AI & Writing Tools — for more on how I use AI in my writing process