Short stories
The Rabbit and Fox Trilogy
3 storiesThree linked fables: a meadow of rabbits who kept watch for foxes, the newcomers who wouldn't, and the fox who planned it all.
The Acorn Trilogy
3 storiesThree linked fables: a squirrel and his acorns, the crow who decided who should have them, and the owl who saw what happened to the forest afterward.
Writing utilities
Grunt Force
Story bibleThe working notes for Grunt Force, a novel in progress: the world-building bible, the characters and plotlines, and the style guide for writing it as a mosaic of chapters.
Writing Techniques
TechniquesCraft notes I keep beside the draft of Grunt Force, from 23 Bookfox videos: sentence shapes and words to cut, description, dialogue, building and pacing scenes, voice and point of view, time skips, the middle, braiding storylines, theme, game structures and revision, with a live demo to try most of them on.
Classical Inspiration
InspirationWhat the classics, in the old sense of a civilization's foundational books, can teach a novel in progress: The Second Story's definition of a classic, standing on the shoulders of giants, Goethe's healthy versus sickly, how to read old books, and my Grunt Force reading list.
The NEO Fork
Fork planA plan for forking NEO, Hugh Howey's open-source word processor for authors, into a version for writing Grunt Force: a sentence shape suggester that waits for a pause, revision passes you ask for, and outline cards that ask questions.
Book Clubs
GuideWhat a book club is, what actually gets talked about, why people join one, how to find or start one, and the tools that make running one easier, from library book club kits and the Big Library Read to Bookclubs, Fable and The StoryGraph.