The Worlds - lite

A few readers contacted me this week to say they're enjoying Xmas Carol . I love when people give me a shout-out, especially if they...

Recently I spent a few days looking for timeline software. I had this illusion that there was a program out there that could track the tim...

The other day, it occurred to me to wonder whether I could legally include lyrics from Xmas carols in my horror novel, Xmas Carol. They...

In the early days of this blog, I wrote a lot about the process of writing fiction. How do you write a novel? How do you create a charact...

Yes, of course I'm still editing Xmas Carol. I will until the day I publish the book. But this post is about hardware. Much to my...

I wrote the blurb for Xmas Carol last week but I don't like it much. I just don't have a knack for writing pithy descriptions. I ne...

A segment on the news tonight featured an invention I made up for Xmas Carol. There it was, up on the screen -- no longer my secret idea. H...

Another reader joined the pack last week. My longtime friend Dale read Xmas Carol and I'm happy to say he gave it an enthusiastic revi...

I've almost finished my latest edit of Xmas Carol. It sounds great, just the way I want it to. I can't even guess how many times I...

I keep saying I'm "editing" Xmas Carol but a more accurate statement would be that I'm rewriting it. I'm always rewri...

Last night I was musing about the characters I've created for my books. Characters can be wildly interesting and it's fun to creat...

There is a gay male character in one of my books and he's always saying things are "faaaaaabulous!" The problem is that it...

Timelines are a difficult aspect of writing fiction, at least for me. I create scenes and assemble them into a book, and it all makes logic...

There are not one, but two, psychopaths in one of my books. I figured why not go for two, you know? Just kidding. The plot req...

I wrote a post a couple of months ago bemoaning the fact that I'll never be able to write horror novels that have ghosts, witches, spe...

Well, I'm editing but I'm not quite mad -- more like exhausted. I've been editing Xmas Carol for a couple of weeks now and I...

I often think of writing a book in terms of decorating a house. I touched on this idea the other day with the post about making each scene ...

If I'm not in the right frame of mind to write on a given day, I can still make progress. There is always some aspect of the job I...

There are times when I gleefully rip into religion in my novels. It's such a delicious, overripe target. I can't help myself. But re...

One of the greatest things about writing is the creation of fictional characters. It's such a freeing thing to be able to create anyone ...