Category: The Art of Writing

Wie kannst du einem Charakter auf den Zahn fühlen? – How can you get to the heart of a character?

Wie kannst du einem Charakter auf den Zahn fühlen? – How can you get to the heart of a character?

http://myskaldkonur.com/2019/07/09/wie-kannst-du-einem-charakter-auf-den-zahn-fuhlen-how-can-you-get-to-the-heart-of-a-character/
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“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review.

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

Show your appreciation for these stories by leaving a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or other social media.

If you enjoy horror, check out my collection of horror short stories A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror: Stories of wizards, werewolves, serial killers, alien worlds, and the damned, which includes these stories.

Update: July 21 Struggling

I have been working on Shadows and Stars Lying Down since yesterday. The muse tells me that at this point in the story a particular character needs to be kidnapped, so that the dedication between he and another character can be explored. I think it’s a decent idea, but I am trying to come up with who the kidnappers should be, whether this should foreshadow something else, and how it ties into the ending or if it should. Interesting intellectual exercise. 🤔

Book Review: Paresh Tiwari’s ‘Raindrops Chasing Raindrops: Haibun and Hybrid Poems’

Book Review: Paresh Tiwari’s ‘Raindrops Chasing Raindrops: Haibun and Hybrid Poems’

http://cafedissensusblog.com/2019/07/21/book-review-paresh-tiwaris-raindrops-chasing-raindrops-haibun-and-hybrid-poems/
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Update: July 20, 2019 Writer’s Block Addendum

Another way I deal with writer’s block is by writing or revising the bio/background of a character. This helps me get into his mindset. This helps me work out details so that his actions are logical. I don’t delve deeply into characters’ backgrounds in a novel, but having a coherent background in the author’s mind for a character helps keep the character’s actions consistent and logical.