Tag: The Art of Writing

The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse ★★★★★ #BookReview #BookBlog

The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse ★★★★★ #BookReview #BookBlog

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Fantasy Book Review: John Gardner’s Grendel — Interesting Literature

Fantasy Book Review: John Gardner’s Grendel — Interesting Literature

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Update: July 9, 2019, Olive Garden Again

I am at Olive Garden now, having a basic lunch of soup and bread and working on “Shadows and Stars Lying Down”.

I tried to write for eight hours yesterday, but ended up writing for about four, maybe less. I took a break and watched YouTube for awhile, but couldn’t get another good zone going. I intended to write for eight today, but had too much iced tea last night and couldn’t fall asleep until 4:00. Ergo, I was dragging this morning when the alarm went off at 7:30. I finally shut off my snooze alarms and laid in bed until around 10:00. I have a few things to do today, but I hope to get a good amount of writing done.

I would like to be as disciplined a writer as Thomas Mann, who wrote for eight hours/day as if he were working a regular job. That may be the only way to achieve my goals. I am giving it a shot.

I am progressing, however. “Shadows and Stars…” now has over 63,000 words. I am shooting for between 80,000-100,000. I hope to have the first draft completed soon. Wish me luck.

Hemingway was right. A novel is a completely different animal than a short story.

Ideation: Where Do Ideas Come From? — Writers In The Storm

Laura Drake “Where do you get your ideas?” Every writer has been asked this at least a dozen times. In fact, famous authors have come up with outrageous answers, so they don’t have to go into it. Think I’m kidding? “From the Idea-of-the-Month Club.” – Neil Gaiman “The Idea Book.… Read the post

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Conflict and Chaos — Short Story Scribe

Chaos – a noun: complete disorder and confusion. Conflict – a verb: be incompatible or at variance; clash Two words. One a noun, the other used as a verb. Both connotate similar emotions. The universe was created of chaos. Human beings can’t seem to live for any extended periods without being in some state of […]

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“BROKENHEARTED BLUES”~by Martin Gedge — OUR POETRY CORNER

POEM “BROKENHEARTED BLUES” by martin gedge Sitting on this bar stool where all the sorrows go drinking to forget just to let the sadness flow walking are the wounded with their battle scars to show searching for the underlying clues of how they got to bottom drop each bottle brought despair there’s a […]

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DESIRE~by Dr.Saroj K Padhi — OUR POETRY CORNER

DESIRE By: Dr.Saroj K Padhi The half-moon is not so bright But awakens dormant desires Of many shreds this very night. The sky of your body spreads out With desire in every pore Pining to contain love Behind heaven’s closed door. Honey of affection from across the foliage green Drenches my entire being […]

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Fantasy Book Review: John Gardner’s Grendel — Interesting Literature

In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews a classic fantasy novel that responds to the epic poem Beowulf History, they say, is written by the victors. Although this isn’t universally true – there are many testaments and narratives by those who were on the losing side, or who were victim […]

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Our senses~by rldubour — OUR POETRY CORNER

Our Senses All ready to be opened from the moment of our birth. These are our gifts for life, with our first breath on earth. Most know of only five, I feel there must be more. So I went searching on the net and found what I was looking for. Besides the constant […]

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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.