Temple of the Spider God - an Afterword
I like to include an "afterword" at the end of all my stories. It was inspired by something Stephen King often did. He took it as a...
The Abracadabra Effect
I STRONGLY BELIEVE that the creative process is the closest thing we have to true magic in our world. And I’m not talking about...
The Coming Avalanche
After spending the majority of 2021 in a non-writing funk, I managed to put together a few thousand words in the late fall, early winter....
Introducing ... Project: REAPER
2021 has been a challenging year for creative writing. The ideas keep coming, of course, but the act of connecting brain-to-fingers to...
News of the New
We're halfway through 2019 and it's already been fairly busy. There are some things going on right now ... News of the Present I have...
How Much of the Story Do You Know?
Most of the time a story just appears right in front of me. It can take some effort to craft it into something that someone would...
Taking Stock
It can be easy to get discouraged. Maybe you don't feel you're living up to your potential. Maybe you feel that you should have made...
The Horrors of Self-Editing
I love to write, and I write quickly. Part of the problem, though, is once I'm finished telling a story I tend to move directly on to the...
Splashdamage & the Land of the Unpublished
So, the plan was to finish up Sketch and then finish up Splashdamage. Splashdamage, for those of you who don't know, was the planned...
