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I remember going to a lecture by Neil Gaiman in 2017 in which he said (I’m paraphrasing) that the way to write is to start writing, and don’t stop, don’t fix, just keep going until it’s done.  The […]
A woman looks at a wall on which masks of faces hang. She holds a mask in one hand as if she is trying to choose.

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I have been turning this question over in my mind since I read part of a manuscript submitted to BDP that had an interesting technical plot, but flawed characters. I don’t mean “flawed” in the dramatic sense of […]
A wooden bench next to a pond

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What do dogs (or wolves, for that matter) see?   Dogs don’t see the world in black-and-white. Rather, their vision is most similar to people with red-green color blindness. But there are other ways dogs differ from humans. […]
Vampire clutches his chest, reacting to the rising sun

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Killing a vampire might seem like a contradiction, since vampires are already dead, but in this case, we’ll be talking about taking the vampire off the board for good.   Legends abound regarding how to kill a vampire. […]
A wooden bench surrounded by tall grass next to a small pond

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Stories leak into my head…and I collect them for you. I’ve shared my head with stories for so long, that I don’t remember when it all started. The first time I sat down to write a story, I […]