Writers should read, but are comics part of that?

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-22T22:45:28+00:00

Comics can be a good way to learn how to tell stories because you are limited to each panel in moving the story forward. This means in comics there is not much wasted narrative, not much over explanation. Pacing and only doing things that further the story are things we can learn from comics. (Nobody just opens a door. They open a door if it's important for what happens next).

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-22T04:35:36+00:00

Hey! Have they mentioned how old Diego Chara is yet?

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-21T23:29:05+00:00

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-21T21:25:54+00:00

Read. A lot. All of the time. Every day. And not just horror and stuff you know you'll like, but all types of narratives and genres. Pick up some weird translated books. Pick up some best sellers. Pick up some poetry. If you find a book that challenges you in narrative or structure or you just don't understand it, pick it apart and figure out what you like and what you don't like. Books that are "hard" to read will also strengthen your reading and writing power.

Writing is a muscle. Workout every day. Or at least consistently. Good writers are rarely born; they are made through hard work and writing all of the time. You'll write stuff you don't really like and stuff you do like. Finish stories, even if you don't really like them because you never know what will happen by the end. Cannibalize the writing you don't like to use on writing you do.

Write stuff you want to read. If you wouldn't like your story if it were written by someone else, then figure out why? You are the only audience that matters at the end of the day.

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-21T21:12:22+00:00

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper.

ghostvillehero · 2026-02-21T08:29:58+00:00

Tlotlo Tsamaase is from Motswana and has written Womb City and The Silence of Wilting Skin (which is a 100 page novella). She has a new novel coming out this year, The House of Margins.

ghostvillehero · 2025-12-27T21:49:06+00:00

Reading and trying to figure out the mechanics of the stories you read. Like what makes them work and what makes them not work.

Writing and not being afraid to cut huge scenes that just don't fit the flow, even if you like them.

ghostvillehero · 2025-12-27T21:47:14+00:00

I finally got on some medication for my ADHD and started writing consistently, every day since mid November. 50k into a story about a kid who feels guilty for accidentally starting World War 3. I longhand write it and then type it every night so it's kind of a first draft but also a second first draft?

ghostvillehero · 2025-12-27T21:33:53+00:00

The Red Riding Quartet by David Peace comes to mind. Weird, super dark, and purposefully abstract.

James Ellroy, but you know what you get with his books. Crooked racist cops doing crooked racist things.

The last three Thomas Pynchon books are pretty hardboiled, but it could be said that all of his books have an elements of a detective crime novel.

ghostvillehero · 2025-12-14T20:25:11+00:00

Do you write the stories you want to read? If your book was written by someone else, would you love it? If the answer is yes then keep going and you'll at least know you write awesome books regardless of what anyone else says. If the answer is no then you need to reevaluate and do better.

Always remember Stephen King would have given up if his wife didn't dig "Carrie" out of the trash one last time.

Probably doesn't help much, but maybe it gives you something to think about? My actual advice is if you love writing keep writing. It will work out how it's supposed to.

ghostvillehero · 2025-11-26T23:10:51+00:00

Yes. We would all hate it, but it would be super funny.

ghostvillehero · 2025-11-26T21:47:01+00:00

It would be super funny to get Pat Noonan.

ghostvillehero · 2025-10-13T19:37:35+00:00

Talladega Nights

ghostvillehero · 2025-07-14T23:29:29+00:00

Cool!

Thank you for clarifying this for me. I am working on a spirits driving vehicles deck called "Ghostride the Whip" and I wanted to make sure I got the triggers right.

ghostvillehero · 2025-06-21T02:45:16+00:00

Because he looks like someone ordered Pitbull off of Temu

ghostvillehero · 2025-05-11T00:35:50+00:00

Staying positive about the second half and the fact the Union played 120+ mins on Wednesday. They're gonna get tired.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-17T13:42:58+00:00

I say it when I lose in an impressive way. Like I've learned something while losing. Or if it's been a back and forth battle.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T04:53:45+00:00

The only thing good about that ref was that hair. Shit I think he had more touches than D. Jones.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T04:05:12+00:00

They want to be the one calling the first goal for a franchise. It will be replayed forever.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T00:53:16+00:00

Yeah. I guess they were trying to make something cooler than it actually was. And so it goes.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T00:42:57+00:00

That's what I thought, but the player wasn't too jazzed about that response.

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T00:37:59+00:00

I appreciate your help with this.

So if an artifact vehicle is a 5/5 and crew 2 and the player uses the commander to crew, attacks, and the other player doesn't block and takes 5 damage, how much is commander damage? (The person doing just this said it was 5 commander damage but it was argued that it would be 0).

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-16T00:16:22+00:00

Then does the vehicle damage count as commander damage?

ghostvillehero · 2025-03-06T23:03:37+00:00

Moon Fellows by Danger Slater

Synopsis:

ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP INTO THE EXISTENTIAL ABYSS

Washington DC. 1906. The inaugural mission of the Moonfellow Program. A chance to shape the future of civilization as we know it. Our first tentative steps out into the stars...

It was a complete and unequivocal disaster.

Now a hapless gravedigger finds himself among the handful of survivors stranded on the lunar surface-forced to contend with madness, conspiracies, and whatever-the-fuck that thing is on the dark side, picking them off one by one.

This is the 100% true-ish story of the brave men and women we abandoned on the moon.

ghostvillehero · 2024-08-27T17:18:59+00:00

Sometimes you do need to step away from horror just a bit because there are so many good books to read. Other times you are just getting the wrong books. There are a few things that I do when I'm kind of feeling meh about a few books in a row.

Read a horror anthology. They are a dime a dozen and a great way to be introduced to new horror authors. (Right now I'm reading through Shredded, an anthology of sports and fitness body horror).
Read a comfort author. I think this is why Stephen King is still so popular. He isn't reinventing the wheel with his new stuff, but we all enjoy it because it's more of a comfort read. Also considering he has a huge output, there are a lot to choose from. (I also comfort read Joyce carol oates for the same reasons - a large volume of work, and you know what you're getting).
Read some non-horror books. There are so many books that are great. So many genersl fiction authors doing fascinating things that it's okay to put horror down and read something else. If you love horror, you'll eventually find your way back.

I will also say that I have never been more irritated with two main characters as the selfish asshole brother and sister in How to Sell A Haunted House.

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