Drops of Blood

Some news stories just beg to inspire a fiction story, don’t they? The one about the Italian thief who’s reportedly hypnotizing convenience store clerks and running off with their cash did raise my eyebrows, but it really captured my interest after Scott Adams grabbed hold of it. He explains how it could — theoretically [...]

[tags]inspiration, goosing the muse[/tags]

I’m learning something every day that I actually just sit my ass in the chair and WRITE. Lessons so far:

Adjectives and adverbs and repetition of wording won’t kill me. I’m liberally sprinkling such carelessness throughout the descriptions that I’m pouring out right now, because I consider them just placeholders to capture the mood and images [...]