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Wolf Wounds Update #4 — Building the Full Outline

Dec 5, 2025

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Today I want to walk through the exact process I used to turn Wolf Wounds from a loose idea into a full structural outline. It started, as most of my books do, with a call-and-response session between me and the AI — a creative volley where I push, it pushes back, and together we find…

Writing Update — My Six-Month Release Plan & Where Every Project Stands

Nov 20, 2025

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Over the last year, my creative life has shifted in a major way. I’m writing steadily, finishing work, and starting to see how all my books — memoirs, fiction, and strange hybrid projects — fit together. For the first time, I’m choosing to treat writing like a long-term career rather than a string of isolated…

Behind the Curtain: 7 Unpublished Projects I’m (Still) Writing

Aug 5, 2025

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By Frank M. Anderson I spend a lot of my life writing — sometimes in furious bursts, sometimes in slow burns that smolder until the words feel right. Not everything I write is out in the world yet, but I wanted to pull back the curtain on seven projects currently in progress. These are the…

Poll: Help Decide the Title for a Metafictional Novel of Grief, Recursion, and Haunted Archives

Aug 1, 2025

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In this current novel I am writing, recursion is not just a narrative device—it’s the very structure of grief, memory, and broken authorship. Inside a labyrinthine Archive, language collapses in on itself, mirrors write back, and dead characters fight to remain legible. It’s a story of death haunting syntax, of grammar breaking under emotional pressure,…

🛠️ How I Write Now

Jul 29, 2025

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A reflection on AI, authorship, and trusting the work to find its audienceby Frank M. Anderson When I first started writing The Cancer Diet, I had no grand plan. I just needed to make sense of something that nearly broke me. That book saved me—not commercially, but emotionally. It got me here. Since then, I’ve…

The Long Road of This Writing Journey (And How You Can Walk It With Me)

Jul 4, 2025

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When I first started writing, it wasn’t with the hope of building a career or seeing my name on a shelf. It was because I didn’t know how else to survive. The Cancer Diet began as notes to myself during treatment, a lifeline in moments when I wasn’t sure I would see the next season.…

Two Books, One Voice — Preorders Are Live for Unto a Golden Dawn and The Cancer Diet

Jun 23, 2025

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Well, it’s finally happening.Two books—radically different in tone, shape, and origin—are now both up for preorder. One is a story I never thought I’d survive long enough to finish.The other is a story that may have helped keep me alive. ✨ Unto a Golden Dawn Release Date: September 19, 2025Kindle eBook: $7.99Paperback: $14.99📘 Preorder here…

From Salinger to Patterson: The Strange Arc of a Writer’s Success

May 19, 2025

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What does a writer owe the reader—and what does success do to that promise? A writer once told me he wouldn’t write a single word unless he was certain it would be published one day. I thought he was mad. Not because I didn’t understand the hunger. I did. But because to me, writing was…

The Author Who Changed Everything: Hugh Howey and the Long Road Back

Apr 12, 2025

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If you’ve never heard of Hugh Howey, he’s one of those rare authors who didn’t just write a great story—he reshaped how stories are shared. He’s best known for Wool, the breakout dystopian sci-fi that launched the Silo series. It began as a self-published short story in 2011—no agent, no publisher, no plan beyond putting…

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