It seems you have to network to do everything. I attended several workshops/seminars on how to get a job and they all kept saying the only way to do it is to network. Sending out resumes rarely works, they said over and over. That’s real great to hear when you’re bad at talking to people you…
This is why I love the time we’re in. Anyone can be a publisher. I’d heard about Paper.li often enough but never knew what it was. I figured it was more like a white paper- only certain people could create one. I subscribed to one Best Tweets for Writers Daily. It gives me awesome information…
Writing is our passion. Doesn’t mean we always feel like doing it. I’ve been struggling lately with motivation. The scenes are forming in my head but I don’t write them down anywhere- not even a journal. If you need a good helping of motivation like I do, watch this video. The quote that speaks to…
My mother, Deborah Johnson, published her first book! Awesomeness. It’s called Finding Me…Again?-a poetry book/autobiography. It’s amazing and I’ve never been into poetry like that. She self-published it through CreateSpace. When she got the print version in the mail, she told me she mauled the packaging. Wished I could’ve seen that. It had to have…
I have a love/hate relationship with World Building. It’s a brilliant puzzle but it’s also a nightmare when your world gets too big for you to sort out all the information in your head or even through a journal. To help with this, I started drawing. I’m not great at it but the images help…
It’s funny how you think you can’t live without something until you have to. My Internet has been acting up. Web pages either load slowly or not at all. It’s not my computer. I own 2 and both are having issue. Hulu and Netflix won’t open on my Wii. Can’t ask my provider about it…
Planned on this post being a movie review then Frankenstorm descended on the East Coast. Following and experiencing Sandy, all I could think was this is like some SyFy B movie. Stuff like this just doesn’t happen in NY. The city that never sleeps is pretty much shut down. Many subway stations are flooded and…
Never been a big fan of documentaries but I’ll watch one taking about haunted places.You don’t have to believe the stories to enjoy them and the creepy images. They’re brilliant fodder for your own dark tales. Despite the tons of horror movies I’ve watched, I’d loved to visit one for the atmosphere and the inspiration.
This. movie. scared. me. Something about Sinister got in my head and twisted everything. That’s saying a lot. I’m a life-long horror fan but I pretty much stopped expecting the genre to be scary. It gets kinda old watching a movie or reading a book that’s supposed to be scary but it’s not. I expected…
As a life-long horror fan, October is my favorite month. Since I started writing in Dark Fantasy, I’ve kinda neglected my macabre side. Here’s a little story I wrote to appease the horror within. Humans find the one good house on the block and call it haunted just because it didn’t look new. They told tales on Hopewell. While feasting on two females’…
