To Write with Wild Abandon

✍️ How to Avoid the Trap of Insidious, Pedantic, Boring, Over-description

or, Sometimes a Sunset is Just a Sunset - Do you suffer from over-description in your prose? Here are some ways I've fighting it in my own writing.

Mar 17 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Four Ways to Curb Your Perfectionism

or, How to Keep On Moving On… Does perfectionism make you stuck as a writer or even hold you back? Me too -- and here's how I'm fighting it.

Mar 10 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Books that Got Me Writing (and Why!)

or, What’s on Your Bookshelf? Here are some of the books that inspired me as a writer over the years for various reasons. What are some books that…

Mar 3 • Graham Strong

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February 2026

✍️ Is Your Writing Right? Insights on Perspective from a Great Rock Guitarist

or, Don’t Read so Close to You - Andy Summers talked about listening to song takes in different locations for better insights. Does that work for…

Feb 24 • Graham Strong

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✍️ The Power of Creative Minimalism

or, Enjoying the Silence - How I took advantage of my annual writing retreat to unplug, unwind, and destress, and explore creative minimalism.

Feb 17 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Retreating

or, When Do You Admit that Enough is Enough? Reflections on juggling life and writing.

Feb 10 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Two Ways to Sharpen Your Dialogue

or, Ideas on How to "Show, Don’t Tell" While Telling

Feb 3 • Graham Strong

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January 2026

✍️ Our Job as Writers

Or, the Joy of Things That Aren’t There - Have you ever may a list of things that aren't there? It's harder than it looks. I realized though, that's our…

Jan 27 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Why Starting the New Year with a New Keyboard is Making All the Difference for Me

or, How Full Circle is a Step Forward - What's a writer to do? When Microsoft discontinued its Sculpt Keyboard, it was the start of my long journey…

Jan 20 • Graham Strong

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✍️ In Defence of the Adverb

or, Why Merrily We Write Along - Stephen King says adverbs aren't your friends. He's not the only one. Here's why I think adverbs are much maligned.

Jan 13 • Graham Strong

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✍️ A Few Words about Em-dashes – and Why AI Can Suck It

or, How in this Case, I Actually *Am* Raging against the Machine… - AI has changed the way many people use em-dashes. I'm sticking to my style.

Jan 6 • Graham Strong

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December 2025

✍️ Happy 2026! And, a Happy Announcement…

2025 Year-end + 2026 Year-beginning Review - Although 2025 was not the stellar year I'd hoped in general, this newsletter really took off thanks to you!

Dec 31, 2025 • Graham Strong

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