by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 18, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
another preview of the novel What Matters *** This is the scene: it’s a 100 degree day and Jim is sitting on a bench in the shade at a bus stop at Riverview, Kansas, where there has not been a river since the 1930’s...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 7, 2026 | Blog, Novels in Progress
*** [A portion of ongoing novel] Without our poetry, we cannot be. Not as human beings. Perhaps as cogs. The machine can feed us with tubes and shower us with hoses, and pair us off on the internet as it sees fit, to...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Aug 19, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
[another glimpse of ‘What Matters’] Harry usually visits when he is concerned about something. He never comes out from his lair for the sheer pleasure of the sunshine. He doesn’t own a hat, and the...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 31, 2026 | Blog, Novels in Progress
about novel truth *** The common ground As always, the first matter is where to begin. This is a story of what I believe to be an extraordinary friendship. It is...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 17, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
[a chapter from ‘Whaterever It Takes’ I asked Maya about a series of words, printed in green, at the edge of a painting on her desk: ‘Lowering, Towering, Flowering.’ Printed in formal Roman letters, as if chiseled there in stone, they reminded me...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Aug 16, 2025 | Novels in Progress, Stuff in Progress
a novel *** 1. With his first mug of coffee in hand, James Franklin opened the door to look out toward the lake, as he would on almost any morning, even in bad weather. He took a breath, as if it were his very first...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 26, 2025 | Blog, Novels in Progress
It is, in fact, a novel in journal form. And of course, something like this is never complete until you croak. But I have done very little during the last six months except re-write. It is essentially the same story it has been for almost two years now, but different....
by Vincent McCaffrey | Apr 10, 2018 | Novels, Novels in Progress, Unpublished Novels
# This is the recovered journal of Griffon Macdonald, concerning his late expedition to the Earth, and what he found there; being also an accounting of some of the other matters learnt during his doctoral investigation, as originally proposed to the committee of the...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Essays, Novels in Progress
And the absence of Flapdragons [A bit of the novel in progress, A Republic of Books, to be found growing elsewhere on this ethereal site.] For all of my life I have been taught and heard repeatedly all the wrong things about writing, and about how to write. I think of...
