craft – Page 4 – Stephen Graham Jones

A&P & Me

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019

Not going to say I cut my teeth on this story, quite. What I cut my teeth on, short-fiction-wise, would be Ellen Datlow’s selections for OMNI, way back when. Those…

Categories: craft

Letter to . . . second time around

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

That “Letter to a Just Starting-Out Indian Writer” piece I read first at . . . NALS, I think? in 2015 or so? Anyway, read it again at IAIA a…

Categories: craft / events

Best Reads from Lately

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and…

Categories: bookish / craft / etc / movies/tv / news / paleo

Noveling the Novella

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019

Oh, man, this thing I’m writing, it’s one word away from clicking over into official novel land. And it’s almost two-thirds done, maybe, hopefully: Would jam through to the end…

Categories: craft / etc / music

Galaga Riser DIY / How-to

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

Which, before I get into it, let me say: I’m the last dude who should ever do a how-to on anything, except maybe writing a novel or a story. But…

Categories: craft / etc

Hello, I’m a _____

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019

Finally, a text-driven meme. So cool:

Categories: craft / etc

Blurbs

December 11, 2018December 12, 2018

I remember not long after House of Leaves came out, with Lethem’s way cool blurb on back, that there was an article or interview somewhere, where he (Lethem) was saying…

Categories: bookish / craft

CU on the Air

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018

Was very cool doing this interview/podcast with them. Nice working with a team, in a studio, and Ken McConnellogue is a superb host. You can listen to it here, or, looks like,…

Categories: craft / news

Busiek on making comics

November 23, 2018November 23, 2018

His stuff’s always good to read. Guess this is one reason why: the attention, the do-overs, the insistence on getting it right. We should all be so conscientious, and so…

Categories: comic books / craft

The Haunting of Hill House

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, I mean, not Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel*—though? I do kind of wonder if a whole generation will find a re-issue of The Haunting of Hill House,…

Categories: craft / movies/tv

Best of 2018 so far—the October roundup

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018

Late late late. I feel like the white rabbit. My excuse? Wrapping a big project, putting all my words there. But, c’mon, dude, this isn’t even words, this is just…

Categories: craft / food / movies/tv / slashers

When @Benjamin_Percy is constructing a comic story, he approaches it like a math problem. pic.twitter.com/eR2Ac717x2 — SYFY (@SYFY) August 6, 2018 this ‘breakdancing in a straitjacket’ he’s talking about via…

Categories: craft

Pirates & Pirating

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018

Man, looks like I’m just embedding tweets here all day—I did just wrap an extensive novel rewrite about five minutes ago—but, here’s another one, a good one, an important one:…

Categories: bookish / craft / etc / news

Bukowski

July 10, 2018

Thinking this goes for fiction as well: Charles Bukowski on writing poetry pic.twitter.com/ZbRQHK4lG6 — Poetry Is–@VVanGone (@PoetryIsPoetry) June 30, 2018

Categories: craft

Category: craft

A&P & Me

Letter to . . . second time around

Best Reads from Lately

Noveling the Novella

Galaga Riser DIY / How-to

Hello, I’m a _____

Blurbs

CU on the Air

Busiek on making comics

The Haunting of Hill House

Best of 2018 so far—the October roundup

Some Gospel Here

Pirates & Pirating

Bukowski