For me, there is one benefit to all this staying at home: I am getting a lot of work done. I have gone back to writing my first draft longhand, on l...

If you told me about a mystery story containing a supernatural element which is essentially syncretistic, and in which the main character is po...

I love movies. Some of them, anyhow. My wife and I have an ongoing joke: she likes movies with lots of dialogue and I like movies with gratuitous nu...

I have been having trouble writing much of anything lately. Actually, this post will be the first time I’ve written anything more complex than...

Being a writer is a strange affliction, sometimes. At the moment, it’s like having a girlfriend who never remembers my name. The reason for th...

  For me, there really is no such thing as a first draft any more. I think the concept of a first draft is a leftover from the bad old days, wh...

  In 1956, French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot (no relation) filmed Picasso at work. The resulting documentary is called ‘The Myst...

Have you buried your dreams or did you drown your one life in a dark and bitter sea Did your friends already dig you down into the rotting dark, a m...