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Oh snap. Joe Hill, the mind behind *Horns,**Heart-Shaped Box,*and Locke & Key, will be speaking about his upcoming novel, *NOS4A2,*at the Seattle Public Library Central Branch on July 9th. I can’t count how many times I’ve sat in bed, wide-eyed, reading a Joe Hill book and too scared to wander around the dark apartment for a glass or water or trip to the bathroom. So much wonderful scariness! If you’re a horror fan, make sure to check this event out!...

If you send a train of information hurtling through your brain often and fast enough, and if the train screeches loudly enough, you may eventually find yourself yelling back. -Maggie Nelson, Interview with About Creativity

Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I’ve got there, because I know that by doing that I am inching the book forward....