Writing is where ideas are shaped into form—through structure, voice, and revision. These posts explore the discipline behind the process, where instinct meets craft, and what begins as a thought becomes something deliberate, controlled, and ready to be read.
I thought longer waits for Google Search Console’s Page Indexing reports meant Google was processing more URLs. The records show a strong correlation, but also sharp contradictions. I compare receipt gaps with activity across all indexing buckets and explain what the figures can—and cannot—tell me about my ongoing SEO work.
Pinterest once sent 1,500 monthly visitors to my author website, powered by 25,000 pins about storms, photography, sailing and dark fiction. The platform still offers discovery and analytics tools, but its declining return raises a harder question for writers: is Pinterest worth the time required to make it work today?
Money, glamour and murder begin gathering around a Raby Bay canal home and a sixty-foot catamaran. Michael imagines the woman who might command it: a beautiful doctor, skilled sailor and fertility specialist with secrets. Felicity Snow has not quite arrived, but the first unsettling pieces of her character are forming.
Moreton Bay: Glamour, Catamaran Sailing, and Dark Secrets in Raby Bay Read More »
Windows, doors and rain are more than scenery in SEETHINGS. Each marks a change in character, tension or perception, building quietly until a sliding glass door shatters. Michael Forman explains how repeated imagery, careful rewriting and atmospheric pressure transformed ordinary objects into active parts of his dark psychological thriller narrative.
Metaphorical Writing Devices Used in SEETHINGS Read More »
If your letter is published online and shared across social media, it is already open. Michael Forman delivers a blunt, funny rebuke to writers who insist on stating the obvious, dismantling the tired “open letter” label and urging everyone to stop wasting words—and get back to work instead now.
An Open Letter to People Who Write Open Letters Read More »
Every year, people disappear without explanation. Some meet with accident, violence or misfortune. Others plan their escape, quietly abandoning marriages, debts and identities for another life. But when an unfaithful person vanishes, carefully cultivated lies create the perfect confusion—and the perfect opportunity for a patient predator to strike unseen.
Is Your Cheating Spouse Planning to Disappear? Read More »
Before SEETHINGS had a name, it wore several others while I rewrote the manuscript, tested cover designs, and listened to readers. This old announcement takes me back to the moment everything finally clicked together: the title, the cover, and the nervous joy of publishing a story entirely on my own.
When SEETHINGS Finally Found Its Name Read More »
Anger demands action, but writers can make better use of it. Save the clenched jaw, cruel thought and flash of primitive justice. Distil those sensations into characters, motives and psychological tension. On the page, frustration becomes more than an emotion. It becomes fuel for fiction that knows where darkness hides.
How to Save Your Anger and Frustration—Then Turn Them into Dark Fiction Read More »
AI hashtag generators can scan an image and produce suggestions in seconds, but speed does not guarantee relevance. For authors and book bloggers, the trick is letting artificial intelligence identify possibilities without surrendering judgement. The machine may recognise the photograph, but only the writer understands the story hiding beneath it.
Save Writing Hashtags. Let An AI App Take Care Of That For You. Read More »
