How I Define Suspense

The question the becomes: how do you create tension? How to engineer suspense? I’m sticking with the definition I’ve put down in the past: Suspense is born when a character you love does something you hate. It isn’t enough to merely put a character in mortal danger — the true tension lies in the character’s choices and responses to that danger.

Why You Probably Still Suck As A Writer

Every writer sucks at least a little bit. (And let’s not pretend — some of you suck a whole lot. Your suction is so strong, you could siphon a grizzly bear skull straight out his big bear butthole. Fwoomp.) I know I suck as a writer. Not always. Hopefully not often. But it’s in there — a smell like rot wafting off the pages.

Soon It Is Autumn, And Autumn Is The Epoch Of Beer

Autumn’s coming, and with that season comes a hunger for all beer, all the time. Any beer goes well during the season. Autumn gets all the weather — the heat of summer moves into the warm and cool of spring, finally transitioning into the cold snap of winter, and during this time, I love me some goddamn beer.

Will Flash Fiction Keep This Blogmachine A-Churning?

So, I’ve been thinking how to keep this site up and chugging along while I’m off cavorting upon distant moons and swimming in alien seas, and then I looked at the calendar and see that my time away coincides with the ramp-up to Halloween. So, seems a good time for a horror-themed flash fiction challenge, yes?

And Search Term Bingo Was His Name-O

Once again, mutants and miscreants, it’s time for another hot, gushing round of Search Term Bingo, where I choose the most fucked-upedest search terms used to get people to this very website, and I put them on display for all to see!

Please to enjoy.