DeAnna Knippling

I have a mental checklist for emotional distress.  Because I am THAT kind of nerd.  But also because I often have a hard time staying in contact with my emotions and feelings (like, literally I can make physical pain go away if I’m focused on something).  In order to keep myself from having some kind […]

Over the last year (I fudged it – I finished A Dark Matter on October 24, 2015), I’ve read a number of excellent dark-minded books.  Here are the ones that stuck best with me–horror, noir, suspense, and one non-fiction.  No books in the middle or end of a series; some short stories; one novella.  One

I  have nothing deep and meaningful to talk about with writing at the moment but I want the feeling of having blogged, so I’m going to repost some of the links that I put up last week.  Or is that too honest? A-hem. Let me try again. I have run into a number of wonderful

Kobo has a 30% off sale on selected ebook titles – the promo code is 30OCT. A Murder of Crows:  Seventeen Tales of Monster and the Macabre is there to be had if you want it 🙂

Note:  this is not the tightest blog post ever.   In trying to write about handling information so I can clear up confusion, I keep stumbling over how to explain how to handle information about handling information…etc.  Things got confusing.  So my apologies in advance; this is tricky stuff to catch, and I’m fighting myself.

The over image for this bundle was so much fun I that I’m adding it full-size. The Witches’ Brew Bundle is up, and contains my short fantasy story, “The Ballad of Molly McGee.” Never trust a witch; she might not be telling you everything.  This is the story of how Molly McGee’s grandmother saved Molly’s newborn

I’m used to writing very analytical posts about how to accomplish what you set out to do as a writer. However, sometimes it’s important to do the opposite and write (mostly) non-analytical posts–anti-analytical posts, even.  Certainly anti-“one stripe of analysis is better than any other” posts. The more I learn, the less likely I am to

Bad House Spirit Kindle | Nook | Kobo | iBooks | Goodreads (reviews) Carrie used to clean houses for a living. Mostly it was hard work but it was all right. But there was one house that was bad. Not the cleaning, although it was. But the house itself, from the creepy pictures to the barred and tinfoil-covered windows to the KEEP OUT signs

Note:  As I was writing this, I realized that I had gone into full nerd mode, which is something that most people don’t need, most of the time.  So I’m going give what I think most people are going to want first, and then leave the full-nerd-mode blog post after a break, in case you are not

Pacing.  What is it? Pacing is a tool that controls the speed and rhythm at which a story is told and the readers are pulled through the events. —Writer’s Digest. Okay, fair enough.  But what is that tool?  It refers to how fast or slow events in a piece unfold and how much time elapses