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On writing community and demonic compulsion What does it take to write a novel? In 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley says that the desire to write a novel is the only prerequisite needed to […]
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This week, an old dog learned new tricks and stretched her mind. I made an Instagram video. From scratch. Stretching your mind is supposed to keep your brain sharp, adaptable, and young. New experiences and challenges promote neuroplasticity—what […]
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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is not your typical werewolf book. Werewolves have been twisted, molded, and (in my opinion) maligned in popular fiction and movies. Vampires have archetypal antecedents to draw on—Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Nosferatu, for […]
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Genre in fiction can be a slippery beast. Sometimes I don’t know what to say when people ask me in what genre I write. I usually say that I am broadly writing in the fantasy genre. Sometimes I […]
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After last week’s focus on research—timetables, maps, photographs—I was ready to write this week. Notes on the next scene in the WIP had been drafted months ago. This week I worked on finishing this scene, which opens the […]
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Werewolves love and hate the moon. She gives them freedom on their Night, but rules their lives, even when it’s not the Night. She can be a cruel mistress. She gives them amazing strength and magical abilities (like […]
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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. […]
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