Writing

Quarantining an Entire State? People are being quarantined in Texas, healthy people who simply hosted someone who…

Writing is the Art of Illusion The Art of Illusion: I have written several articles in Angie's Diary about good…

How To Write A Great Story From my experience critiquing submissions as assistant editor at Bewildering Stories…

Express Yourself in Writing I don’t know many authors who have not ventured into joining a writers group of some…

Write Like Bram Stoker Abraham "Bram" Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897, but it still gave me the creeps - amazingly.…

Late Blooming Genius I’m not a creative genius by any means, and that’s probably a good thing. A large percentage…

A Squall among the Squid I was at Pasticcio Restaurant on Third Avenue and 31st Street for dinner last night and…

What is the Horror Genre? When I started as a writer, I wrote fantasy stories—and usually the heroic type. I…

Friend of My Soul I learned new words today. Anam Cara. (I guess that’s really two words, isn’t it?) It’s Celtic.…

I want to lead a wild life, to find the wild woman within.

Writing Vocal Tones and Facial Expressions Of the many things I learned from Deb Dixon's "Goal, Motivation,…

Writers: Clean Up Your Mess One of the biggest problems writers have is editing their work. It’s difficult to…

Rules Schmules “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs...” ~Stephen King, On Writing Yes, Mr.…

Where Would We Be Without Words? We create with words. Even non-writers create worlds, meanings, stories with…

A One Page Presentation The day I had finished my last book, I had three weeks to get all the details for a…