Near Miss
Hi all!This was a heavy week! Setting aside the Eschatological Altogether, I had a lot more solo childcare than usual, and my COVID vaccine booster. I’m...
To Want Double of Desert
Thoughts about Dune
Supplies, Chains
... and other strangeness!
The Fable of the Gazelle
A story about running and writing
Handwriting the Elephant
Notes on process
LAST EXIT (cover reveal)
My next novel, coming next February
'Adulting,' 'Wrong'
And other category errors
What (Doesn't) Break
entropy--how does it work
Sharp Jagged Broken Surge Ghost
The Repetitions
The Cathedral in our Heads
The joy of copyedits
Trees as Trees
In which Max realizes he's never read Tolkien's On Fairy Stories
Outlining and GTD
Why is David Allen like a Writing Desk?
Like a Clod of Earth
On Repose, and the Contemplation and perhaps Completion of a Series
Screaming, Necessity, and Waistcoats
On thaws, 'relatability', and the Athena Club
The Jewel Tone Switch
Catching Up, with an Aside about Books on Writing
Under the Table, Inside the Tree
Parenting and Other Transitions
Combs, Bullets, Baseball, and other Magic Systems
Here's me overthinking it again....
Reading Past the Madeleine
Lost in Time, and Lost in Space, and Proust
Prudent Dealings and Evil Hot Dogs from Outer Space
On tension and other motive forces.
Max Gladstone's Third Place
Hello! Stay a while and listen!In case you’ve stumbled here by accident, I’m Max Gladstone. I’m a Hugo and Nebula Award winning writer. I write books for the...