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Lovecraft Country: Who was Lovecraft anyways?
Howard Philips Lovecraft (20 August 1890-15 March 1937) was the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, a writer of weird fiction, and a master of horror. He wrote for pulp magazines and focused in on the idea of where humanity fits into the universe, a genre that has come to be known as cosmic horror. One thing's for sure, his more fantastic elements make it clear that he thought anthropocentrism, humanity as the most important being on Earth, to be a rather fragile idea. He has influenced just about every major English-language writer of horror that I can think of and, I'm sure, horror authors who write in other languages as…
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The Thing About Being a Writer…
People often ask me when I “became” a writer, like I woke up one morning and went “Aha! I am a writer now!” or had some life-altering moment that made me go, “I shall now begin to write stories!” I don’t know if that’s how it works for some people, but I never had a eureka moment like that. There was no time where I was becoming. I simply always was. For as long as I can remember, when I wake up, I tell myself the story of the previous night’s dream. My first thought of the day is writing. Throughout the day, my need to write about the…
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On realizing my favourite characters are twenty…
Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters? I blinked and then had to do math. Math! And man, did I feel strange afterwards. My favourites are twenty-years old. You read that right. Twenty. My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven. I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing. The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one. This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…
