About Lincoln Michel
Counter Craft was started in 2021 as a newsletter about “fiction craft, publishing stuff, weird books, and other literary sundries. ” I’ve stuck to that remit and published on a (more or less) weekly basis since then.
I called this newsletter “Counter Craft” because my focus has been on counterintuitive craft concepts. You don’t need me to say “show don’t tell” or “make your characters round,” but perhaps it’s useful to hear me say, “telling is just as important as showing! ” or “you need flat characters too! ” Of course, the newsletter has wandered to other topics like the porous boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, writing in the age of AI, the writing processes of different authors, and my own publishing journey.