To Write with Wild Abandon

✍️ What is Story?

Asking for a Friend... You'd think that every writer would know what story is. Turns out, maybe I didn't. Here's what I learned and how it improved my…

12 hrs ago • Graham Strong

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April 2026

✍️ Two Words that Will Boost Your Creativity Immediately

or, Tomorrow Never Knows - During a recent Oasis revisit, I came across a Noel Gallagher interview that struck a chord and is good writing advice for us…

Apr 28 • Graham Strong

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✍️ How to Make Sure No One Confuses Your Writing for AI (Maybe)

or, How Drinking Cappuccino at a Little Café in Paris overlooking the Eiffel Tower... - A few ideas on how to avoid unjust accusations of AI in your…

Apr 14 • Graham Strong

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March 2026

✍️ Writing by Feel

or, Spending Afternoons Chasing Ideas Down Alleyways - We can be too precious with our words. Chasing ideas sometimes finds dead ends, but also new…

Mar 31 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Five Steps to More Authentic Writing

or, Thanks, Hem – but How Do I Find My “One True Sentence”? - We tell ourselves lies all the time. So how do we find our writing "truth"?

Mar 24 • Graham Strong

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✍️ 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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