by mike | May 12, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post, about another popular pulp writer from the early twentieth century, first appeared in 2012. Since I’ve spent the last two Throwback Thursday posts on my favorite and most inspirational writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, I decided to continue that theme with a...
by mike | Feb 18, 2016 | Books, Horror, Nightmares, Research, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
In this post from 2012 I talk about how my dreams—good and bad—influenced so much of my writing, especially back in the day. What’s the deal? A guy who writes horror, fantasy and other weird stuff wondering if creativity is a curse? To be honest—no, not the majority...
by mike | Feb 4, 2016 | Books, Editing, Fantasy, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
This post from back in time talks about a two-word phrase that, without question, is an integral tool in every novelist’s toolbox. Everything I write—everything that just about all novelists write—begins with those two words. I prepare detailed outlines for my...
by mike | Jan 28, 2016 | Books, Films About Writers, Movies, Romance, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
We’re back to a tiny Texas town today to find out more about a giant of a storyteller: Robert E. Howard. Who knew? While writing a recent post about Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan and the acknowledged “father” of Sword & Sorcery, I did research to make...
by mike | Jan 21, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Research, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With a new Conan movie supposedly on the horizon—although I think it’s been stuck in “development hell” for a while—I’d like to revisit this post about the barbarian’s creator, Robert E. Howard. Readers of sword & sorcery, sword & planet, science fiction,...
by mike | Dec 10, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Editing, Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror, Life, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
With over two hundred posts in the nearly four-year existence of my blog, I thought it might be fun to revisit some of the older stories. Beginning today, in addition to the new posts on Monday I will use the Wayback Machine every Thursday to summon up the past....
