What's in your character's pocket? -- if you were to turn out this person's pockets, what kinds of things would you find in there? That's my...
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I'm pretty sure Maris would eat his own leg. Somewhat unhappily, and he'd never let his friends forget that he could have eaten them instead....
I tend to write late at night, and only on my laptop. If I listen to music, It can't have words. I have to go in order-- I can't write a scene I...
In the project that I'm re-writing one of my main characters does do some pretty violent things, and horrible things happen to other people, but I...
Sombre salamanders slide stealthily southward, singing shabby soprano symphonies, simply stinking.
Ru would not think this is strange at all, sadly. People do that to him. He'd probably set the cabbie up with a cup of tea, break out some Bob...
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If you want to get the full first person narrator experience try to find some books with unreliable narrators. Just because they're telling the...
I used to, but now I won't unless (1) I'm forced to by school, which happens often, or (2) I'm really dragging my feet about the book I'm...
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (sp?) Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (mostly) Incident of the Dog...
I love both the movie and the graphic novel forms of the Watchmen. I read the book after I saw the movie, and I had a pretty interesting...
I'd really love to do this. My schedule probably wouldn't let me come play in the book club, but I could squeeze in a short story. Also, not...
I just finished a book of poetry in translation called I Don't Believe In Ghosts, by Moikom Zeqo (Albanian). I've been avoiding Bukowsky's Hot...
Introductions like this always give me pause. I'm not really sure what the appropriate combination of personal factoids to give is, so here's what...
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