Writing and "The Process"

Writing and "The Process"

All writers have a process that allows them to create. However, the art of "Writing" is often mistaken for that "Process." Hopefully this blog explains the difference, and inspires people to develop their crafts, become writers, or just keep on writing.

Friday, March 27, 2026

The Compound Sentence

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I made a promise in my last post , a promise to do a deeper dive into the work of art called the compound sentence, but I understood well in...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Schoolhouse Rock Revisited

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I will be the first to admit I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this weekend. After my Friday post, Object versus Subject , I hopped on YouT...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Object Versus Subject

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If there's one thing I struggled with in high school, it was grammar. My language usage was just fine when I spoke (though a little slur...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Games Writers Play

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We all know the basics of writing - either fiction or fact, the objective is to communicate a message to a larger audience. With storytellin...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Smalltown - Last Stop

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I'm actually a little surprised about some of the IMs people have dropped me about the past few worldbuilding posts and our hypothetical...
Monday, March 2, 2026

More About Smalltown - People

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I thought this little discussion about worldbuilding would be one simple post, but the discussion around making the world that is Smalltown,...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Smalltown follow-up - Flavor

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When I decided to write a few pieces about the finer points of world-building, I knew I was opening up a real can of worms. For writers, esp...
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James Pressler
I've been a career analyst who has lived a double-life for the past two decades as a creative writer, exploring the world beyond facts and figures. My writing comes from a personal passion for storytelling, for offering new perspectives to familiar themes, with moods ranging from friendly humor to serious observations on the darker aspects of life. Short stories and character sketches have been a compulsion for several years, and several stories have since been published, The first published novel was "The Book of Cain,"with two other manuscripts now being shopped.
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