Ramos On Craft exists for anyone who has ever wondered why some writing feels alive and some does not, and who suspects the answer is worth finding.
Every week, Rolando Andrés Ramos writes about the craft of literary fiction, the kind of wisdom that arrives through story and personal revelation rather than through instruction and formula.
If you are a writer somewhere in the middle of the work, trying to understand why your drafts sometimes surprise you and sometimes disappoint you, this publication was written for you.
New articles arrive every Tuesday. Free subscribers receive every essay.
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From the Archive
The Notebook Is Not What You Think It Is
On how the writers you admire use a notebook to think, not just to record.
What The Character Knew Before You Did
On what free writing uncovers that outlining cannot.
So Much Said By So Little Being Said
On Hemingway’s principle of omission and what the iceberg teaches every writer about what to leave out.
The Daily Practice You Keep Meaning to Start
On showing up to your writing desk, and what meets you there.
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