• david.c.biddle@gmail.com
Three excellent books on writing in the 2020s

Top 3 Worthwhile Books on Writing

Why There Are No Final Drafts

I completed the first draft of a story called “Millie Floating” in the fall of 2004. In those days, my goal was to edit a project until I had a final draft, at which time I could send it out […]

What Do Mistakes Say About Writers?

Losing Our Way: on technology and being creative in the modern world

I have an open letter posted to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, over at TW this month. I take Cook and Apple to task for not being creative with their digital book applications (the iBook Store and iBook reading system). I […]

Economies of Scale in the Writing World: Beyond Talking Indies

My fall “Talking Indies” column, “Three Money Lessons for Starry Eyed Authors,” comes out today at TW. It summarizes three important lessons I’ve learned since I dove full-time into the publishing and writing world in 2012. The column is intended […]

The Word Thieves: Navigating the New Landscape of Plagiarism

This essay appeared in Talking Writing in April. Talking Writing is rapidly becoming a high-quality online source of information for writers and content-providers of all sorts.   By David Biddle for Talking Writing Imagine that a rigidly controlled country you’ve always longed […]