Carnivalesque
I'm starting to hear my main character's voice in my head while I write. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?! I can tell I'm deep into the story now, because I tend to think almost hyperactively, type furiously and flit around the house doing this and that and so-many-different-things-all-at-the-same-time. Phew! Either way, [...]
Hypnagogic
After last night's 11pm coffee fix, I almost couldn't turn my brain off, and ended up writing for another 3 hours. I suppose I shouldn't complain – there was a time where words failed to come to me at all, so really the inconvenience of having to get out of bed at 3am, turn the [...]
Room With A View
After brainstorming on 4 different short story ideas over the past week, I finally settled on one for my entry for the Candlelight Anthology. t took me 2 days and approx. 6 pages of handwritten notes to flesh out the plot and piece it together so it made sense, but having finally decided that I [...]
Mary’s eerie tales inspire in readers the urge to double-check the deepest, darkest closets, to peer anxiously under the creakiest of beds, and to always sleep with the lights on.
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