Life (& writing). Something we share, something we don't ; The Dark Ages : before I wrote ; My default man ; Agoraphobia, writing and me : fear and laughing at Canyon Ranch ; Father chronicles : embracing Cordelia ; House lesson I : aspirational storytelling ; Autumn, 1972 ; AD(H)D I ; A life of profound uncertainty ; On not reading ; Rejection, summer conference style ; The dreaded desk drawer novel ; My parent trap ; AD(H)D II : August 8, 2011 ; The art of ripping stitches ; On learning to spell women's names while men buy my novel for their wives ; In which my mother suggests that I murder her, as a marketing ploy ; Shut up, shut down ; Material ; Father chronicles : to the extent that he was able ; Varieties of fiction

Writing (& life). Twenty-one things I wish I'd known before I started to write ; The collaborative reader ; The final draft : what's love got to do with it? ; How (not?) to query ; Line edits I ; Living in the present ; If only! : the imaginative wealth of what didn't take place ; No fool like a bold fool ; Give it up ; House lessons II : to renovate, to revise ; Revising reality ; The success gap ; The literary birds & bees : how one novel was conceived ; If defense of adverbs, guardians of the human condition ; Line edits II ; The subject is subjectivity ; Tales of sorrow, tales of woe ; House lessons III : showing not telling ; Giotto's perfect circle ; Line edits III ; Father chronicles : the persistence of demons ; Empty now.