Archive for October, 2005
A few Words about Originality… by David Niall Wilson
Quick note - there is no regular “columnist” for the 31st of a month, and since no one was “on deck” for today, I’m posting a day early to cover today and the 1st, my normal day.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
I’d like to write something this time out about trends, trend-setting, and originality. This is [...]
Lock Those Doors
I’m not exactly writing about writing this time because, recently, it seems that every time I turn around a writer or editor of my acquaintance is suffering from severe computer and/or Internet frustration. That frustration tends to be a part of life these days, especially for those of us who use one or more of [...]
Writers, Mister Rico! Zillions of ‘em!
I’m currently awash in writers. Game writers, that is – published game writers, new game writers, people who want to be game writers, you name it. It’s the first Game Writers’ Conference (the location of the apostrophe is still apparently a matter of some debate), an adjunct conference to the Austin Games Conference and [...]
Voice
by Janet Berliner
During one of many hungry periods of my writing life, I descended reluctantly into the relatively well-paid abyss of Porn. Not erotica. I write that with few reservations. I’m talking down and dirty. Did I enjoy writing it? No. Did I enjoy cashing the checks and buying food? [...]
Unsolved Mysteries
While I’m waiting for my first novel, THE UNWELCOME CHILD, to be published this December, I have begun writing a second novel that has a somewhat autobiographical plot line. It’s about an ex-professional dancer who teaches Pilates in New York, and returns to the Midwest to take care of her critically-ill mother. Stranded in her [...]
Seven Steps to Halloween
– Jeffrey Thomas
The first signs of Halloween manifest themselves long before the last day of October, even before autumn has actually begun. Candy and costumes, decorations and other paraphernalia prematurely line the shelves of stores, more out of anticipation of money to be made than of the holiday’s mystical pleasures. But as the days shuffle [...]
Is It Really Worth It?
For the first time since Storytellers Unplugged went live, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to get my essay (23rd of every month) finished in time. After last month’s lament on trollish online behavior, I promised to write something about writing, but in a month’s time, I haven’t been able to find [...]
A Victim Of Judgmentalism
By Michael Laimo
Okay, I write horror, some pretty nasty, sick, vile, stuff too. I like my horror that way. The wetter, the better. But it’s all MAKE BELIEVE folks, I’m not really like that. I don’t go around with pickaxes gouging out the eyes of puppy dogs. I don’t have a demon throne in my [...]
Partner Up!
by Jeff Mariotte
We sit at home, or on airplanes, at work, God forbid at Starbuck’s—if we’re Ernest Hemingway, we stand naked at a podium, but how many of us, really, are Hemingway, and if you are then lock up the damn shotgun. We clack away at keyboards or we scribble in wirebound notebooks or [...]
AN EXPLANATION OF PUBLISHER/BOOKSTORE/AUTHOR/READER ECONOMICS
by Brian Keene
(Note: This month, by popular request from you, the readers, I’d intended to write an essay about how to write full-time. However, since I write full-time, deadlines got in the way. So look for that next month. Meanwhile, the following reprint was originally published earlier this year at Hail Saten and also appears [...]
