Why Not Write About the Writing Craft?

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A lot of author blogs focus on the writing craft and make posts about tenses, grammar, plot creation, genre, and other topics.  Others go into the nuances of Amazon, marketing, and whatever else comes after you hit ‘PUBLISH’.  These are very important things to know about and I’ve learned a lot.  One of these posts years ago is why I can put a Table of Contents in my books.  You really can avoid most of the common pitfalls by looking at what other authors have done.  Just read the post and hope over the spike pit, but please make sure to drop a sandwich down to those who fell.  I mean, you wouldn’t have been able to avoid the mess if they didn’t stumble first.

Now, I’ve been asked a few times why I don’t write much about the writing craft.  I probably…