I had another night full of nightmares about going out of business. People have tried to give me good advice on the writing business.  I’ve listened, but I’ve made the mistakes anyway.  There are some lessons you can only learn by living through them, I think; those lessons vary from person to person, but these […]

Over the course of the last few days, I’ve been trying to download more books to my Nook, in preparation of going on a trip. One of the books that I’ve been meaning to read is Christopher Moore’s Lamb, which has been repeatedly recommended to me. I decided to buy an ebook copy of the

I worked on a story this weekend that had a split character in it.  I read an article a few weeks ago about this kind of character, and I think it’s been on my mind ever since.  There’s probably a technical name for this, but I can’t remember where I saw the article, and I

I got onto a strange twitter thread yesterday called #zombieproverbs, in which we took various cliches and made them applicable to zombies, like “A brain in the hand is worth two in the skull” and whatnot. I was toodling along with things like, “Two’s company and three’s lunch,” and “When the going gets tough, the

A doppelganger is a “ghostly counterpart of a living person, a double, or an alter ego.”  If a person looks in the mirror, and the face in the mirror does something different than the person making the reflection, or if there’s an evil twin of you running around and doing bad things you couldn’t possibly

Because I could easily spend the day stressed out today–I have an extraordinary amount of work to do, I’m not getting paid on time, and I don’t have time to take care of the other stuff that’s bothering me–I’m just going to put up my “Zen of the day” quote and hope for the best.

I think I’ve told everyone already, but I wanted to memorialize this on my blog, too, so I can come back to it on bad days. My short story at Three-Lobed Burning Eye, “The End of the World,” was an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3. I went completely

I’ve had people ask for a summary of the presentation.  We had a video camera and mikes up; if everything goes well, there should be a recording available via Pikes Peak Writers. The presenters were Angel Smits and Karen Fox.  I wished Karen had used more examples in her part of the presentation (endings), especially

An extremely short story inspired by one of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenges:  write a story about “irregular creatures.”  For some reason, trying to come up with an idea for this stuck in my craw…I tried out all kinds of things over the course of this week.  Yesterday, waiting for my daughter to get out