Archive for April, 2006
Don’t Lose Yourself
As a writer, I read a lot. I’ve been that way since I was a kid. I was checking Stephen King books out from the local library before I was even capable of reading them. I can still remember laying under my bed with a flashlight tearing through “The Stand” for the first time when [...]
The Short of It
At RavenCon, in Richmond, VA, this past weekend, I took part in a panel discussing whether short stories should be considered the building blocks of a writing career or a dead end for someone striving to become a professional writer. Some worthwhile discussion came out of it, so I thought I’d return to the question [...]
Poetry & The Art of Rhetorical Maintenance
by David Niall Wilson
(Since we don’t seem to be quite on line with Lucius yet, I’m posting this — maybe of interest. It was originally published a few years ago in the HWA Newsletter)There are a lot of fundamental questions associated with poetry. Some of these questions are so basic they challenge the foundation [...]
Someone Left Their Toys In My Sandbox
I do a lot of playing in other people’s worlds. My professional writing career started this way, coming up with extensions for White Wolf’s ominously named World of Darkness setting. It continued with my first published short fiction, non-people-I-was-currently-working-for division, with a story called “Let the River of Death Wash Over Me” in an anthology [...]
Interviews
by Janet Berliner
Used to be, once-upon-a-time, that interviews were exciting to give, take, and read.
“Hey, look, Ma. I’m important. They’re interviewing me for the Bazooka Times.” “Hey, look, Pa, they’re doing a piece about when you taught me to fish and you got mad at me and tried to [...]
Workshopaholic
Workshopaholic by Terese Pampellonne
First of all, I apologize for not posting last month. Due to unforseen events, I was unable to post on time.
Anyway, I just plunked down a good piece of change to be a part of a Novel Writing Intensive. You’d think that after two years of an M.F.A. program I [...]
Seeing Things
by Jeffrey Thomas
On the grounds of Saigon’s sprawling zoo is the Museum of Vietnamese History, an impressive and fascinating place. A museum of any kind is pretty much the best place to put me, besides a book store. Here, I encountered a mummified body that sent my spooked wife out of the room (I reassured [...]
Other Worlds Part 2: Cerno & Ingenium – The Doors
He looked at the object, which now cast a narrow shadow back toward the upland, and kept walking.He could make it out now, fever or no fever.It was a door.- Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
Before reading this essay, I suggest going back and reading Other Worlds Part 1: The Far Seeing Eye if [...]
Defining Ourselves
(Admin Note - thanks to our lovely local cable provider, I’ve been without Internet access all day, hence the lateness of this post. My apologies to both Richard and our loyal readers!)
by Richard Steinberg
“If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing,” Kingsley Amis
And if the following annoys you, then consider me simultaneously [...]
Outlines: An Outline
By Jeff Mariotte
I’d been thinking for some time that I might write about outlines for this month’s installment. Joe Nassise touched briefly on the subject a few days ago. Then I saw this post by my friend Lee Goldberg, writing about another friend, John Connolly. In it, Lee writes, “In talking with [...]
