by mike | Apr 21, 2016 | Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Yes, I do write a lot about Field of Dreams, the best movie ever. Here is my original post, which I did in 2012. It began as a short story by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella in an anthology of baseball stories titled, Shoeless Joe Jackson Come to Iowa. Later on,...
by mike | Mar 31, 2016 | Books, California, Ghosts, Life, Nightmares, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Over three decades later, losing my beloved German shepherd still hurts. I wrote about Barney back in 2012. As a writer I don’t often use the old cliché, “Love at first sight.” But that’s what happened the first time I saw Barney. This runty German shepherd, about two...
by mike | Mar 24, 2016 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
Here are some more observations from a 2012 post about how we writers of horror fiction go about scaring readers. In an earlier post, “Horrors! Or How to Scare the ‘Yell’ Out of People,” I wrote about the effect of scaring readers and film watchers with subtle horror,...
by mike | Mar 21, 2016 | Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Paranormal, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
In the 2015 Gothic thriller, Crimson Peak, director Guillermo del Toro has crafted an atmospheric period piece designed to scare the living crap out of viewers. Young, aspiring novelist Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) likes to write ghost stories, but I doubt if she...
by mike | Mar 10, 2016 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post from 2012 addresses one of my favorite pastimes: scaring the living crap out of my readers. I actually taught a class with that title some years back. For a long time I served as a consultant for the San Diego Unified School District’s GATE program (Gifted...
by mike | Jan 14, 2016 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Are the happenings weird—or is it me? You be the judge after you read this post from 2012. In a recent post I wrote about my trip to Downieville, in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, to do some background research for my ghost story, The Burning Ground. Some weird...
