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 [...]
I envy those writers who still use a pen and paper to get their words down. Writing by hand has a very warm quality to it — like choosing to listen to vinyl over an mp3. One of my professors [...]
Inspiration strikes in strange places: sometimes you have to hunt it down, and sometimes it lands in your lap like a brightly coloured, ticking package just waiting to go off. I wonder if I like [...]
It's springtime! Snow is melting, the sun is out, and I've had a great "maker" weekend where all I've done is write, design, and further develop a couple of projects I've had going. A few days [...]