craft – Page 5 – Stephen Graham Jones

Process

November 27, 2017

This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like…

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The Plural of “Venus”

November 25, 2017

This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth…

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The Nine Circles of (Mis-)Usage Hell

November 21, 2017

I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me,…

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Words per minute

November 20, 2017

I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off…

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Skiffy & Fanty (longer interview)

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017

That one from a few days ago was a spotlight/author kind of thing. This is a conversation about horror, with other hosts, other horror writers: 338. Indigenous Representation in Horror…

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Heather Langenkamp on Shockwaves

October 22, 2017October 22, 2017

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Starlit Wood

October 20, 2017

Angela Slatter let me answer a few questions about it: The Starlit Wood: Stephen Graham Jones

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The statistical approach

October 19, 2017

Yes, wonderful, thank you, Grady Hendrix. I spent so much of time doing this kind of stuff to stories, to books, to authors—to everything. It’s how I attempt to order…

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When ATBS was just a line in my notebook

September 26, 2017

Hey, cool: this is exactly where All the Beautiful Sinners started (season 6, ep 1) pic.twitter.com/l9M2VhaSG3 — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) September 25, 2017

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Genre & Literary

August 28, 2017November 5, 2017

Using the ampersand there because I’m tired of seeing the “vs.” Too? I keep thinking I’m done with this discussion, this rabbit-hole, this time-suck. But then I stumble across something…

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Mapping the Interior of Mapping the Interior

July 31, 2017July 8, 2018

For the book that became The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, I kept a kind of running diary of the writing of it, The Camopede Files. Was fun. It made…

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Miyazaki

June 22, 2017

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All the Pretty Hominids

March 7, 2017July 8, 2018

Back when The Fast Red Road wasn’t called that—this is late 1997, early 1998—the way I intended to write it was as a series of long answering machine messages left…

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Wolvie’s Journey

March 5, 2017

Superhelpful (via Joe Ferrer):

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Desks

March 2, 2017

Years back, somewhere around 1997, I’d guess, I asked Janet Burroway, my dissertation director, for her advice on embarking on this whole writing thing. Janet’s answer was pretty much exactly…

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Lovecraft eZine

February 6, 2017

Whilst Lady Gaga did her thing at the superbowl, I was hanging out here with Lovecraft eZine:

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