writing – Page 21 – Jonathan Moeller, Pulp Writer

The books of Jonathan Moeller

where do story ideas come from?

Quite often, people will email to ask where I get ideas for stories. The implication is that coming up with

John C. Wright and Tom Simon, fine fellows both, have done their own THE NEXT BIG THING posts. Follow the

There comes a time, if a writer has been a writer long enough, that he starts to remember nothing else

I don’t feel it. In this, I am a Muggle. On the radio this morning a local author was talking

But before we come to the main point, I have to put that in some context by mentioning some ebook

I had the strangest thing happened – I started dreaming in haiku. I know why, too. I’m almost done preparing

I was running, and an idea for my next book came to me in a vision – or was it

Mercwriter has a post detailing the emotional stages – many of them involving abject despair – involved in writing a

Writers procrastinate. This is undeniable. However, there’s a way around it. Find something even more unpleasant than writing. Then you

You know what makes for really great art – whether literature or something else? Pain. Because great art speaks to