I've been just a little obsessed with vampires since I was 9-10 and had a nightmare that woke me in terror and sent me running to my parents' room for comfort, something that almost never happened because of a dream. I loved reading vampire novels, watching vampire movies, and the occasional vampire TV show, like … Continue reading Fiction Sample
Tag: speculative fiction
Reading that Shapes the Writer: Watership Down, Dune, Lord of the Rings
Of the many works of speculative fiction I've read, these three books stand out as being truly epic. They have very little in common when it comes to setting or flavor or protagonists. The first is about rabbits establishing a new warren, the second a far distant sci-fi human future, and the latter a far … Continue reading Reading that Shapes the Writer: Watership Down, Dune, Lord of the Rings
Reading that Shapes the Writer: The Last Unicorn
God I love this book. To this day it remains one of the most unique books I've read and was the source of my discovery that prose could be poetry. Peter S. Beagle is not just telling a beautiful and unique story, the way he tells it is, in and of itself, a special kind … Continue reading Reading that Shapes the Writer: The Last Unicorn
Evolution Of A Writer
When I was 19 or 20 I showed my sister (the second born of the family, whom I shared a place with) the beginning of a speculative fiction story I'd started. "You could write romance novels," she said, brightly and cheerfully, after looking it over. I was devastated. My sister had just damned me with … Continue reading Evolution Of A Writer
On A Good Day 