Archive for July, 2011
Here’s the fact: some folks take me and this website far too seriously. Don’t do that. It’s a mistake. I’m just a a guy on the Internet squawking into the void. Nothing I say is worth getting riled up over. And so it seems high time for a disclaimer. Ready? Let’s do this.
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You don’t have to write about the Devil. Just write about something you might find at a flea market. Something strange. Wonderful. Or dangerous. ny genre will do. This is suited toward speculative, but crime or horror or any of that will play well here. You again have 1000 words. Due here by Friday, August 5th at noon EST.
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Adam Christopher is a guy I can’t help but like. He’s a great writer, a good friend, and a guy who doesn’t quit when it comes to writing. He’s a machine, which is apropos then that he’s got a couple of books coming out with Angry Robot Books next year. Now he submits to tortu… uhh, an interview.
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Oscar Wilde. Ernest Hemingway. Hunter S. Thompson. Each, a rock star in his own right. Oscar Wilde was put on trial for sodomy and indecency. Hemingway killed bears, fought in wars, crashed planes, had an FBI file on him. Hunter S. Thompson consumed every drug known to man, was a certified gun nut, and started [...]
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Time again for another list of 25 — this time, a long hard look at the many ways to press hot irons to the feet of your writing and make it beg to get better. Flip through them, and then should you find you’ve got your own to add, well, hot dang, you know what the comments section is for. Time to measure up, penmonkeys.
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