You can lie to me, you can fool me, you can make me laugh, or cry, or sing hallelujah, but to do that you have to tell me a story. It has to be a story that means something to me, or that means so much to you that empathy draws me in. It has [...]
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The WHO AND WHAT questions were character-centric – but the WHY question is a bridge which leads to more than one destination. It’s the motivational link which informs a character’s growth, to be sure – but it is also another kind of bridge, from character into plot and from thence into the setting and the [...] Originally this month’s piece was going to be a followup to last month’s piece, but then I got myself stranded in London by volcanic action. So, here’s a little something inspired by that instead. Enjoy. ******** Follow the sign. It’s small, and it’s brown, and it’s really not designed in the slightest to catch the eye. It almost apologizes [...] I’ll fess up. I haven’t been around here much lately. I could parade a litany of excuses out and make them pirouette about in pretty patterns for you, but let’s just skip all that and go straight to brutal honesty. I’ve been too damned busy. I know. It’s only one little bit of writing once a [...] Well, I’m behind schedule today, so this will likely be a rather short article. Today, because I so love the taste of irony, I will discuss deadlines. I like deadlines. First, they have the word “dead” in them, and as a horror writer, I’m just plain fond of that word. Second, I like that [...] There are twenty-four hours in a day and seven days in a week. A person who did not eat, did not sleep, and performed no activity other than reading would still lack the time required to keep abreast of all of the writing in any genre. Forty years ago, new publications were limited to those produced [...] |
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