Good stories don’t magically appear on the page. Someone grinds them out. In this edition of Doing What Works I’ll tell you how I wrote my second book, why I didn’t want to, and why I’m glad I did.

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Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam is the memoir of Jon Hovde.

Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race is the memoir of Dick Beardsley.

Platoon helped me get in the mood to write Left for Dead.

There’s a difference between a story and a sequence of events; the writers of South Park know!

There’s no such thing as writer’s block.

The Summer of Ordinary Ways “wrings intensity,” as one person put it, “from the seemingly mundane.”