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I Don’t Want to Make This Comic

Section: How I Write

I am a lazy artist. I get some silly/brilliant/stupid idea for a script and get really excited. Epiphany! Light bulb! Yes — this comic about a dead moth I saw must be drawn! The world simply must have it. Moaning and whining and procrastinating, however, quickly follow this bolt of inspiration. I want to sit [...]

The Meditative Mood

Section: How I Write

The ideal writing day for me begins when I wake up naturally at eight o’clock. While I sip on a large cup of coffee I stare into space.
This hour sets the tone for the day.
About nine I eat some protein, cheese toast maybe. From nine to ten I go to the computer or, more often [...]

Giant Puzzle

Section: How I Write

I am a huge procrastinator unless I have a sudden inspiration that comes out of nowhere, I am in the middle of a project, or I have a routine such as a weekly column. Otherwise, I may not write a word for weeks at a time, and when I am determined to start again, it [...]

Days On A Burn

Section: How I Write

Hemingway said ‘There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’
Well, perhaps it was easier when it was a typewriter. Now, first thing, I sit down and check my emails. Even if the obvious spam is sifted out, there are various spammish messages to distract me. Maybe even [...]

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

Section: The Criticess

May Sinclair is in danger of being lost under a mountain of critical essays; smothered by scholars of literature and psychoanalysis alike, apparently determined to claim her as one of their own; and dissected by biographers until every word on the page is weighted with biographical reference, no matter how tenuous. Her fate is partly [...]