Counter Craft

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Counter Craft, “Lincoln Michel”, is a fiction site on countercraft.substack.com, in English, funded by its readers through Substack; no supporter count is published.

Counter Craft, a Substack newsletter by Lincoln Michel on fiction craft, publishing, and weird books.

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Latest posts

Three Great Recent Gothic Novels You May Not Have Read2026-10-29
Of Course It’s the Screens. Who Are We Kidding?2026-10-17
Processing: How Adam Wilson Wrote Fail Sons2026-10-06
The Roots of the Novel Are Parody, Pastiche, and Play2026-09-24
Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observer2026-09-15
Sweat the Technique: On Writing Process and Possibilities2026-09-07
Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabins2026-08-24
Stitching Up the Creature; Or, the Horrors of Revision2026-08-10

From the site's feed, read 2026-10-31.

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Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/scavenging-in-the-media-wastelands

Principles of Plotting Part IV: Intersection and Redirection

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/principles-of-plotting-part-iv-intersection

There Are More than Five POVs

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-more-than-five-povs

The Principles of Plotting Part II: Oscillation

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/the-principles-of-plotting-part-two

Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/principles-of-plotting-3-variation

Sweat the Technique: On Writing Process and Possibilities

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/sweat-the-technique-on-writing-process

Processing: How Paul Tremblay Wrote Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/processing-how-paul-tremblay-wrote

Of Course It’s the Screens. Who Are We Kidding?

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/of-course-its-the-screens-who-are

Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observer

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/processing-how-nicholas-russell-wrote

On Making Money (Or Not) Writing

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/on-making-money-or-not-writing

The Ghostwriter in the Machine, LLM Author Psychosis, and Other Saturday Sundries

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/the-ghostwriter-in-the-machine-llm

I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/i-loved-this-novel-about-digging

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