by Jim Stitzel | Oct 4, 2006 | Writing
I’ve discovered that I’m a low-light kind of guy. Complete dark makes me nervous ((Though, full dark _has_ provided a great deal of fodder for some scary story ideas.)); too much room for my imagination to put monsters in the shadows or to make too much of...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 3, 2006 | Writing
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a noticeable shift in focus on my blogroll. A lot of the blogs I’ve been reading that deal with faith and spirituality issues have been thinned a great deal while my writing-related blogroll has expanded substantially....
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 3, 2006 | Writing
Courtesy of “Eric Nylund”:http://www.ericnylund.net/2006/10/stephen-kings-latest-essay.html, I ran across an essay that Stephen King wrote for the “Washington...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 2, 2006 | Writing
Ok, I love Orson Scott Card’s new online speculative fiction magazine, “Intergalactic Medicine Show”:http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com. The stories are first-rate, the free articles are fantastic, and the extras are a lot of fun. The biggest...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 28, 2006 | Writing
I think there are two brands of horror fiction. One kind is what I call regular, or normal, horror. It’s the kind of horror that we frequently see on TV or in the movies with the deranged psychopaths who like their shiny metal tools and trap unsuspecting –...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 27, 2006 | Writing
It’s amazing what happens when a community pulls together. Jason “announced”:http://apexdigest.livejournal.com/5791.html last night that within the span of 7 days, not only did fans of “Apex Digest”:http://apexdigest.com manage to meet...
