I Hid My Eyes Behind Your Sofa

If you have not experienced X, you should not write about X. Every author writes about things they have not experienced. This is the natur...

Whether it is one you met last night, the household haunt, or a memory from your past, write about them. Dear diary, I never had a diary b...

Writing novels is work. It takes time, effort, energy. Investment. I was glancing at my backlog of stuff while reading the authonomy faq an...

Sometimes, when he thinks we're alone, Daddy listens to the radio. Mommy says, soft as sadness, that the Monster is always listening. ...

“Writing is kind of like having a poo, basically. It’s really hard if you don’t want to go, but there’s a time when you have to go. And tha...

If you are unable to afford an editor for your work, do the following: leave every typo in, add a few amusing ones, and sell the results a...

Currently I'm working on two projects. The Book of Going Forth by Night  is the modern urban horror story that had a draft finished duri...

I'm working on characters for a novel, getting a feel for how they work in my head again. It's been a while since I looked in on the...

It seems my latest method for novels is to combine things from other stories that have stalled or failed and see what works. As a result, wh...

<Chaos`^> sup? <alcar> I is writing. Just began chapter 7, Parents Don't Exorcise Jell-O. <Chaos`^> what? <Chaos...

I've fallen into the habit of posting bits of writing on facebook as status updates. Some are just lines jotted down in a file, others a...

I'm currently poking at a novel involving angels, demons, and exorcism. The one mentioned in the previous post, really. It brought to mi...

Several years ago (in the wilds of 2005) I turned a poem into the start of a novel. The result was Waking The Dead , which was about the dea...

If you had a world with a genuine Good vs. Evil war, where the lines truly were clear cut and so forth*, could a war get funded entirely by ...

I never did do a post-nano post, did I? So.... "New Fires" ended up as 50K and change, and I successfully resisted the urges of pe...