Writing – Jay Allan Storey

August 16, 2021 0 Comments

I have a literary secret weapon. In fact, it’s so good I’m reluctant to spread the word about it, for fear of giving up what I consider a big...

March 7, 2021 0 Comments

One of the many interesting things about being a writer is that you can go back, look at what you’ve written, and glean things about yourself that...

February 2, 2021 0 Comments

I’m not sure whether other writers do this, but there’s a step I perform in the final rewrites of all of my books that I call ‘Playing the Movie’...

December 27, 2020 0 Comments

A major difficulty in writing a novel is plotting, and one aspect of that process I always seem to get stuck on is coming up with plausible...

November 26, 2020 0 Comments

I had a friend a few years ago who could be described as something between what’s euphemistically known as an ‘entrepreneur’ and a cheap shyster...

October 26, 2020 20 Comments

In a well known Zen story, a master calligrapher draws the Japanese characters for ‘The First Principle’ 84 times as a critical student looks on...

September 24, 2020 3 Comments

Some time ago, when the release of my Detective/Scifi novel, THE ARX, was delayed, I decided to read the novel from start to finish – as a...

August 13, 2020 2 Comments

When I was in high school (many, many years ago), my math teacher told us about a consulting group whose special expertise was that they didn’t...

July 23, 2020 0 Comments

I recently submitted the manuscript for my latest novel, BLACK HEART : ORIGIN, to my editor. I got it back, with the usual mass of comments and...

July 6, 2020 2 Comments

Imagine an interactive game that allows you to define the appearance of the world and the characters inhabiting it just by willing it to happen...