HeyJaredRobert T. Kelley
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Aug 24, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Maine Crime Writers
- Top 50M sites
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- Jul 27, 2026
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Just Showing Up (opens the original)
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One of the most, I don’t know, magical?, parts of writing for me is the characters who just show up to come and play. I was trained as an engineer. I don’t believe in magic. I’m not superstitious. But damned if characters don’t show up unbidden. I’ll be writing, following my outline, knowing happens next, then a voice enters. A wholly new point of view, a new back story, a new angle. Maybe this is the core of storytelling, putting a voice to an idea, bringing a narrator to an idea. I’m halfway t
DNF and Not Giving Up (opens the original)
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OK, that sounds totally contradictory. DNF, BTW, is the abbreviation for “Did Not Finish.” Goodreads now lets you put those books on their own labelled shelf. Yeah, not doing that, and here’s why. I’ve stared at the blank page. I’ve edited the bejeezus out of chapters and been dissatisfied with what remained. If we let our very smart writer selves run rampant, we’d never publish anything. So if I encounter a book that I want to like, and don’t, I put it down. Then I remove it from my Goodreads,
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