Flametoad

The deadline for the Writer’s Digest short story contest is December 1. They’re looking for stories of 1,500 words or less. Today is November 26, so that means you have 5 days. Call it 500 words a day and two days to polish. First place is $3,000, which comes to $2/word. The only catch is [...]

Back at the beginning of September, I got an e-mail with a special invitation from Matt at horror website Flames Rising. He wanted to post one new monster description for each day of the month of October. He was contacting his network of game designers, writers, and horror aficionados to contribute to the project and wanted to [...]

Over the weekend I finished the 2nd book in the Dresden Files series. These types of books can be predictable, but Jim Butcher throws in enough curves to keep me turning pages. Yes, there were parts of Fool Moon that you see coming from a mile away, but it doesn’t make the journey much less [...]

Google Reader is a productivity savior and sinkhole all in one. I’m subscribed to “only” 90 RSS feeds, which Google tells me has resulted in 3,403 news items read in the last 30 days. I never could have read all of those posts if I had visited all 90 sites, so in that regard Google [...]

Horror website Flames Rising recently put out a call to game developers to write about the creative process behind their work. I took up the challenge and spun out an essay on what it has been like to work on Degrees of Horror. The essay just hit their site today. If you have a morbid curiosity [...]