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“Comics take key moments in time and turn those into panels. Your brain is what finds connections between those moments and turns them into a linear plot. Just like your brain might assign the sound of a voice on a character or detect a theme or subtext.”
Read MoreToday we have the second half, in which we discuss independent publishing, the MFA, selling octagons, and, of course, because this is Jeremy Robert Johnson we’re talking to here, more parasites. Check it out and let the wisdom trepan its way into your brain.
Read MoreFor over a decade Jeremy Robert Johnson has been making a name for himself as one of the most inimitable figures in literary horror writing; as Chuck Palahniuk says of his work, “A dazzling writer. Seriously amazing short stories. While I read them, they made time stand still.”
Read MoreI was three years out of grad school, having completed the first draft of Eisenstein’s Monster, the author of seven short stories published in the US and UK…and flat broke.
Read MoreHemingway famously said “The essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, bullshit detector;” he also famously said “Write drunk, edit sober.” What both of these get at is the need to develop a way to look at your work from a different vantage point.
Read MoreTOOLS OF REVISION you can use for any style of writing—fiction, non-fiction, blog, essay, or that four-part treatise you’re composing on the abject inhumanity of the traffic on the Eisenhower.
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