The Ticking of the Deathwatch: Revisiting Insomnia
NOTE: For a few years, Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance was doing a big Stephen King re-read (one of three venues doing that, including The Guardian and Grady Hendrix’s read over at Tor.com), but stalled out in 2017 just before The Talisman (Chizmar, uh, started just writing with King instead of merely reading him). Each essay came with a guest essay by another writer and I had turned in two essays, one for The Talisman, which I posted here last week because fuck it, why not–and one on Inso...
Published on September 18, 2019 07:59
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The Dumping Ground, Part Deux
My first paid writing assignment was as columnist for THE CLARION CALL, Clarion University's student newspaper (I was officially the "Circulation Manager", but the job was so mind-numbingly simple it
My first paid writing assignment was as columnist for THE CLARION CALL, Clarion University's student newspaper (I was officially the "Circulation Manager", but the job was so mind-numbingly simple it took five minutes and the outgoing Editorial Board, upon giving me the job, pointed out that they just wanted to give me something that would put me in the bullpen). Since then, I've dabbled with the idea of nonfiction writing again--scratch a writer, get someone who can't shut their goddamned mouth--but I'm a lazy researcher and while I was an okay journalist, I enjoyed just riffing on things. So there you go.
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