Whirling in an arc of sadness…
(Obligatory obscure lyric title)
I managed to hand-edit another 35 pages of manuscript last night before the evening was given over to LOST. I haven’t been watching the rehash episodes, but I tuned in for last night’s and was glad that I did, because there was a little extra footage thrown in, particularly a scene during [...]
Hardcopy
Last night was the first television-free weeknight in recent memory, and I got a decent amount of work done. My first editing pass on the novel in progress was done at the computer, and it was a process of unwriting—getting rid of the rambling blather that often comes out on the first pass. Sentences that [...]
A bad day to be a human
I watched all four hours of the A&E remake of The Andromeda Strain last night. The original is clearly dated in terms of the technology, but it is a suspenseful film all the same and not really in need of a remake. However, this miniseries rendition wasn’t a terrible second attempt. The original will remain [...]
Jack Haringa Must Die to support Shirley Jackson Awards
Jack Haringa Must Die! (104 pp) is now available from Merricat Publications. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards.
“Within the pages of this book are the tales, scenes, confessionals, and dare I say, fantasies of the many deaths of Jack Haringa: the people, they just love to kill him.” So writes [...]
Mad Movie
I love my new(ish) laser printer, a Brother HL-2070N. For years, all I had were bubblejet and inkjet printers. Generating a novel manuscript on one of those puppies—no way. Wave bye-bye to an ink cartridge and keep feeding sheets of paper into the hopper. In less than ten minutes yesterday evening I printed out the [...]
The movie’s not there
I’m not the biggest Bob Dylan fan on the planet by any stretch of the imagination. I respect what he did, but I find a lot of his material difficult to listen to. It always seemed to me like he was groping (tone)blindly for the right note and usually not making it. Not to mention [...]
Jack Haringa Must Die!
Jack Haringa Must Die! (104 pp) is now available from Merricat Publications. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards. It contains my flash story “A Post-Apostrophic Tale.”
Juno at a Funeral
Two more movies last night. First was a British comedy called Death at a Funeral, though the title is a little misleading. It’s a farce set around a funeral that involves hallucinogenic drugs labeled “Valium,” a 4′ tall blackmailer, a guy who won’t take no for an answer, a foul-mouthed senior citizen in a wheelchair [...]
Diving bell
We’re camping in for the long weekend. I stocked up on movies to watch in the evenings, we’ll fire up the BBQ later in the afternoon, and we’ll catch up on the severe sleep deficits we both seem to be suffering.
Last night we watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I knew absolutely nothing about [...]
Powerless
Something we have to grow accustomed to around here once the hot weather arrives, which it has, is sporadic power outages. Sometimes they are prolonged, half an hour, a couple of hours, but usually they are momentary. I’d rather the former than the latter. Twice during my writing session this morning, the power went off [...]
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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.
