Finally, after ages of being "House of Error," I've rebranded the site to "Inktrap." Why Inktrap? I feel like it's an appropriate term for what all of us get stuck in, as writers. The practice of writing is as unforgiving as it is addicting. Couple that with how brutally unrewarding it's getting and "Inktrap" feels like a fitting moniker. A grizzled, old smoker's way of talking about what we do. "Gonna get ready for bed, start washing dishes, and get caught in that goddamn inktrap again--I know it."
4 Years in Vignettes
Hi. Apologies for, once again, taking forever to post here. To be totally blunt, I knew I wanted to talk about my experiences with reconstructive surgery, but I didn't know how I wanted to talk about it. My initial drafts of this post were incredibly dark and bitter in a way that wasn't constructive. They... Continue Reading →
My Story, “A Facet of That Faceless Death,” was Featured on the NoSleep Podcast!
The feature image of this post was made by Thea Arnman for Season 21, Episode 11 of the NoSleep Podcast. Eight years after my short, "Aixa the Hexcaster," was published at Mirror Dance Fantasy, I have finally been published again. This time, however, it's a Sci-Fi/Horror short that was fully voice-acted on the NoSleep Podcast:... Continue Reading →
A Writer Watching – Eternals, Part 2
Hello and welcome back to “A Writer Watching – Eternals”! This is the second part of a two part series, so if you’re just joining us now, you might want to check out part one first via this link. But if you’re like, “Nah,” for any reason, I have to clarify again that the purpose... Continue Reading →
A Writer Watching – Eternals, Part 1
Disclaimer: I know that some people really like this movie. In fact, some of my best friends really like this movie. However . . . a balance must be struck. Since the beginning of time, I’ve vowed that if there came an MCU film worthy of an absolute tear-down because its writing was a mess,... Continue Reading →
A January Break – It’s Cold and I’m Tired from Editing
Today, I finally implemented a few tiny changes I wanted to make in the early chapters of Memory. The kind that you know you want to make before you know what they are--if that makes sense. The result of a gut feeling that something's off, lingering so hard it becomes some cousin of Writer's Block... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #6 – I’ve Become a Criticism Vampire
Last night, I asked a friend if he hated my novel. To set this up, it was the one friend who isn’t in my writing group. I sent my MS to him weeks ago and he avoided talking about it. To me, that meant I was getting Ghost Read (my term for that phenomenon when... Continue Reading →
Welcome to 2022, The Year of Endings
That title . . . makes it sounds so ominous. Let me clarify; what I don’t mean is that this is the year where Omicron merges with GPT-3 and the not-at-all-evil-sounding “xenobots” to become a Thanos-level super villain. All of those things are real, even the xenobots (ho ho, scientists say they learned to self-replicate... Continue Reading →
Games for Writers – Hades Just Became the First Video Game to Win a Hugo Award—And Yes, It Absolutely Deserves It
I wasn’t going to write about Hades this week. My post is late because, though I was planning on cleaning up one of the reserve posts I’d written a week ago, the news dropped yesterday that Hades won a Hugo Award for Literature. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough, Hades is the first game to... Continue Reading →
Dream Diary – I Was the Leader of a Stranger Things-style Monster Neighborhood Watch / Monster-Fighting Corp.?
Disclaimer: While working out what to write this week, I remembered that I had multiple posts saved for future posting. I wrote them, saved them, and totally forgot about them. In one case, I actually just assumed I did post them and was genuinely shocked that I hadn't. So, given that things are a little... Continue Reading →
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