On Writing

I've been mired in place for the past two months. Just choked with the inability to look at the draft, much less work on it. Thinking about writing was giving me fits of anxiety, and not writing [...]

My nights this week have been focused beneath the weak little spot of light that I do my research under while sitting on the couch. Everything else around me is dark. There’s an as assemblage of [...]

Oh, it's certainly that time of week again: today, we're poking at a trope that pisses off people pretty quick: writers are either for or against it, but divided they stand and the rift that [...]

Monsters. Making them. Breaking them. Setting up the big reveal. Prolonging the suspense. Making them scary... And how monster archetypes work in contemporary fiction. I've got a selection of [...]

This is a particular collection specific to writer-types dabbling in the supernatural stuff. Since this is the place where I live and breathe ninety percent of the time, it follows that a lot of [...]

You're not a writer if you're not writing. I've heard it countless times, and true enough, while I might be suffering the first slings of burnout following this insane vacation, I did write my [...]

"Why does this suck?" is a question I'm asking myself a lot these days. I've got two projects going simultaneously, because trying to control either is impossible, and trying to contain myself is [...]

Let's begin today with a bit of backstory: I wrote my first manuscript not so long ago. It was never intended to be a lonely standalone; rather, it fits into a larger and more ambitious project [...]

Absent the old writing anchor, I often find myself dallying between being completely charmed by irregular creatures who've made the smallest gestures of kindness, and wallowing in a state of [...]

There's a narrow strip of concrete between the back door and the farthest fence. Veer two feet to the left, and you're in the bush, veer two feet right and you end up in the pool. On the bad days [...]