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This is How a Flash Fiction Contest on Chuck Wendig’s Website Got Me a Playwriting Gig and Then a Writing Residency in England.

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This is the story of how I turned a flash fiction story written in an hour for a […]

April 29, 2020 Books, Short stories, Writing

5 Rather Excellent Noir Crime Books

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I got to spend a week in Exeter this summer, as the International Writer-in-Residence at the Quay Words […]

August 13, 2019 Authors, Books

The Sublime Weirdness of Jeff Vandermeer’s FINCH

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FINCH is one of my favorite books. I can’t understand why it hasn’t been made into a series, […]

August 10, 2019 Authors, Books, Science Fiction, Writing

How Douglas Adams wrote The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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I was thumbing through my copy of Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy […]

May 3, 2019 Authors, Books, Writing

Now That’s a Simile

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These days I’m re-reading Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece, The Long Good-bye. I do this as I’m nearing the completion […]

February 26, 2019 Authors, Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

Take a Look at Joe Lansdale’s Writing Schedule

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Us writers can obsess endlessly over the optimal amount of daily writing time. Should it be measured in […]

February 20, 2019 Books

The 79 Authors You Need to Read to Become a Writer According to Dan Simmons

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Dan Simmons is a writer you might know, and he once said something about writing and reading that […]

November 20, 2018 Books, Reading, Writing

The Best Writing of the Week – Wuthering Heights

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Sometimes you come across passages that remind you again of what good writing is. I just started the […]

November 14, 2018 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Horror, Writing

Two Awesome Quotes From The Hobbit’s 1973 Introduction

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In my edition of The Hobbit, cheap mass-market paperback, there is an introduction by Peter S Beagle from […]

November 7, 2018 Books, Writing

Pixar’s Movies All Suck…

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…to begin with, that is.  And Pixar isn’t afraid to admit this. In the sublime business book Creativity […]

November 6, 2018 Books, Writing

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