Dark Promptings: A Series of Story Starters from Authors in Many Genres, One Craft

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop on my weblog at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's…

New on Pedablogue: QR Codes and my Campus Office Door

Of possible interest to students and teachers: Over on my education-oriented weblog, Pedablogue, I posted a brief description of how I'm planning to use QR Codes to set up office hours this coming Fall at Seton Hill University. Pretty geeky stuff. Locker room pictures on my office door, for the curious: haunting cover photo from Liberal Education magazine's special issue on The Humanities, Winter 2010; portrait of Vincent Price with uncanny double-eyes by Kelly Hutchison; the QR codes mentioned in Pedablogue; the fantastic Einstein-Monroe Optical Illusion by Aude Oliva.