Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .Read moreWhen I began to write,
I found out that this was
the best way to make sense of my life.—John Cheever
How to Deal with the Voices In Your Head
At least Dr. Jekyll was never both himself and Mr. Hyde at the same time (for more modern readers, that should say, “At least Dr. Banner was never both himself and the Hulk at the same time,” if you catch my drift—who was it that said, “There are no new...
Read moreI know I was writing stories when I was five.
I don’t know what I did before that . . .
just loafed, I guess.—A. N. Whitehead
Here Be Dragons
You’ve probably heard the story before. Ancient mapmakers painted in mountains, rivers, bodies of water, and all that they knew on their maps, but the information was always limited. At some point there would be lands or waters beyond which they had no idea what they...
Read moreRead a lot,
write a lot
is the great commandment.—Stephen King
Interview by Mark Malatesta of TheBestsellingAuthor.com
https://soundcloud.com/rick-killian/interview-on-the-bestselling-author-radio-show The above is an interview I did with Mark Malatesta on his radio show/podcast available at his website: TheBestsellingAuthor.com. I know it's a little long, but we had a blast doing it....
Read moreGrammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.—Joan Didion
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