Boo!
I read Missing Persons beginning to end on Saturday. It took me all day (330 pages), making notes and corrections. This may be the first time I’ve read the whole thing in such a short period of time—previously I think the “record” was two or three days. It was a valuable exercise, the only way, [...]
Speaking of more sleep
Don’t forget tomorrow night:
Sometimes you just have to sleep
This is the time of year when you’re more likely to see zombies than normally. I know—I was one yesterday. The cumulative lack of sleep caught up with me. The sleep that gets sacrificed because I get up early in the morning to write before I go to work. I was in a trance. I [...]
The Lava Lamp Goes Dark
I have a lava lamp on my desk at work. I turn it on every morning when I arrive, and dutifully turn it off each night when I leave. For the most part I ignore it, but it’s a conversation starter, and there are times when I stare at it when I’m contemplating something. It’s [...]
Interviewing myself
Since I continue to think seriously about writing a novel-in-a-month (NaNoWriMo, not to be confused with the British Columbia city of Nanaimo), I’ve been interviewing myself about the story that I would write.
I’m not doing it as formally as David Morrell (author of First Blood (Rambo) and Creepers) recommends in his writing seminars and his [...]
NANO WriMo
I know it’s NaNoWriMo and not “nano” WriMo but I like the duality—a very short time to write a novel, a month. National Novel Writing Month is November, a time during which people are challenged to churn out 50,000 words of first draft quality material. I’m toying with the idea of giving it a shot [...]
It wasn’t COPS
My essay at Storytellers Unplugged went up today. It’s about doing research for writing, and was inspired by my ride-along experience on Saturday, though the ride-along itself features in the article not so much.
I would estimate the producers of COPS must film, oh, 1000 hours to get a 30 minute program chock full of exciting [...]
Which Tarot card?
You are the Justice card. Justice preserves the harmony of the world. Working with opposite forces, Justice does not seek to criticize or condemn but rather to accept. The idea behind the card justice is that opposite forces are complementary; you could not have good without evil or light without darkness. Justice’s position is to [...]
Me and Babs
It’s amusing sometimes how one thing will lead to another. There’s this bagel shop about a mile from where I live that I go to almost every morning before work. It’s where I change gears from writing to the day job. I usually have the same thing (honey wheat bagel, toasted, with margarine and strawberry [...]
Down Boy!
Fight or flight—it’s a strange situation.
We were out for our neighborhood walk the other night. Approaching from the other direction, a couple with two dogs straining at their leashes. One was a small yappy mutt, the other a big, hulking mass of muscle. Probably a pit bull. We idle a bit, waiting for them to [...]
About
Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
