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Patrick E. McLean

Short fiction every week and serial novel "A Town Called Nowhere"
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A Defense of Writing Longhand
A Defense of Writing Longhand
I wrote this essay 12 years ago. And there are a lot of things that I used to believe that I don’t believe anymore. But the substance of this essay has…
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Somewhere a Story is Searching for You
Somewhere, out there, a story is searching for you. It fumbles, faceless through the dark. Unknowable, unformed. Newt pads for hands, it whispers…
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Inspiration
That Son-of-a-Bitch
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What the Rain Brought
The summer was immense. It was so hot that the mud dried in the blasted cracks in the yard as all the crops died. Across the range, cattle moaned as…
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The Inescapable Gravity of Barfight Scenes
And a big reason why people struggle with writing fiction
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You Are The Creature that Turns Silence into Words
And why you should be careful naming bears
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How to Outline Any Story
And why you should
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How It's Written: Batman
Explaining how Batman works written is a huge task. There is simply so much Batman. Since the character's creation in 1939 every conceivable tone has…
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