Conan of the Aisles
Cast the furs from your shoulders and recline by the fire. It spits warmth while the night wind cuts like steel, and the sleet grinds its teeth against the timbers. The frosty tempest is of…
Category: Writing
A Master Horror Story
Let’s break down one of the greatest horror stories ever told: The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury…
DogSS of War Returns!
DogSS of War is back in paperback! Here is the cover. One could even click on said cover to order said book, if one was so inclined… I like the cover and the formatting of…
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King said this about his novel The Tommyknockers — “It’s an awful book.” Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the phone, Mr. King, hold the phone… The Tommyknockers is a great book. King didn’t start doing…
Looking Within, Without or Just-Looking Horror
I watched a horror movie the other night. I won’t mention the title because I’m taking a broader view than one movie here. Suffice it to say, it was a recent horror movie; it got…
Rewriting Austen, Doubly Foolishly
I had a thought (this is such a rare and wondrous thing that I take note when it happens). Within this series of articles, I’ve been looking at famous novel openings and looking at how…
Rewriting Lee, Foolishly
I’m continuing my experiments with examining the opening paragraph of famous books. It is actually teaching me a lot about my own writing, which gives me ideas of things to do differently. This time I…
Rewriting Hemingway, foolishly
Hmmm…I’m having a degree of fun looking at the writing of famous authors and seeing how I would tweak their prose. This is not really done in any attempt to “improve” anything. I’m merely learning…
Rewriting It, foolishly
Apparently, a film version of It by Stephen King came out recently, not to be confused with the miniseries version of It from 1990. Apparently, the new It is pretty popular. I have not seen…
Rewriting Richard Matheson, foolishly
I started reading Richard Matheson’s The Gun Fight the other night. I had read it before, but I didn’t remember much about it, other than the ending and the basic premise (basically, gossip gets out…