My first death was a fortunate accident. I saw a kid get beat to death in seventh grade. One minute he was running down the hall screaming at us to get out of the way. Next minute some Special-Ed kid with a wrench beat the …

A Fool’s Grin. Before you cut off my leg, let me tell you what happened. When the sun came up yesterday morning, my soldiers and I were about to battle a fool’s army of exiled bandits and thieves. “Mael the Bucktooth is a motherless bastard!” …

You get it. You’re creative, or at least you think you are. We all do. You’ve got whatever it is you do, it’s sort of like something somebody else does, but it’s yours. It’s different in the way you like, but similar to the way …

There’s two kinds of writers, I am told. There’s folks who’ll make up some characters, make up a situation, and just start writing, seeing how people interact, almost a free-form jazzercize exploration of your own dream. I like that idea, except my A.D.D. would result …

Revisions are a fun thing. It’s that part of storytelling where you wonder what the hell you were thinking when you decided to write a story from the point of view of not the main character. Or maybe not the most exciting character. I think …