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New blog post by Pamela Jo – discussions in this thread, please --- “The werewolf’s bride is late.” The words echoing in my head were spoken by a black horse. With a toss of its mane, the horse became a giant bird with wings like grey shrouds. The thing’s eyes remained yellow. As drunkard’s...

Here in the Northern hemisphere the feeble light is ever darkening and, quicker than you can say Jack Frost, it will be St Lucie’s Day; the moment in the calendar when the world's whole sap is sunk. I love that poem, I always return to it at this time of year. There is something atavistic about...

I'm reading the book featured in this article (Duffy & Son). Highly recommend it. A wry, funny, and poignant study of getting older. So I did a little research into the author. I think his personal writing story might be of interest to many of us...

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I just loved that title. Interesting interview and evidence there are places to sell stories even today. Authors of Issue 146: Alex Sobel New 47 minutes ago Alex Sobel, author of "The Eight Things You'll Never Be Now That You're Slowly Turning Into a Giant Spider Creature", joined us for an...

I have just learned there are places that will pay you actual money for stories. Something Claire G knows already. This is apparently a good site to find those places...

Well, it's been a heck of a year :rolleyes: sparing everyone the details, our immediate family (me, my wife and both our fathers) were struck with various cancers so... #fuckcancer Now that's over with, I've come back out of hiatus and I'm back to writing again. I published my fourth book just...

The story of the two wolves An old Cherokee Indian chief was teaching his grandson about life. He said, "A fight is going on inside me," he told the young boy, "a fight between two wolves. "The Dark one is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt...

A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. Lorrie Moore

"Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story - who you choose to be." Michelle Yeoh

"A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest." C.S. Lewis

“If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.” Edward Gorey

“Tell your story. Shout it. Write it. Whisper it if you have to. But tell it. Some won't understand it. Some will outright reject it. But many will thank you for it. And then the most magical thing will happen. One by one, voices will start whispering, 'Me, too.' And your tribe will gather. And...

...and got away with it,' says Kashuo Ishiguro in this interview in The Paris Review If it's true, is that in any way a problem. Is it lazy or cheating or is it as some level, artistically and organically inevitable whether or not the writer is conscious of doing it? The writer's lens, the...

Hello, everyone! My name is Cos and it's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm an aspiring writer and if you'd have me, I'd love to occasionally ask for your advice on this or that little piece of thought and dream. In my professional life I'm also a software developer, and since I have started...