Jared Blair's Page
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- Hometown:
- Olympia
- About Me:
- I like spicy food, watching horror movies, and writing stories. I am currently writing a horror story called Deadication about a demented sideshow.
- Favorite Authors
- Clive Barker, His Holiness The Dalai Lama
- Favorite Books
- The Divine Comedy, The Hellbound Heart, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Hell Notes
New Horror Thrillers From IFC Films
IFC In Theaters, makes independent films available to a national audience by releasing them simultaneously in theaters as well as on cable's On Demand platform.Dean Koontz Interview Online
This month you're in for a rare treat as Dean Koontz sat down for an interview with TV host Tavis Smiley.Under The Dome – Book Review
What happens when Stephen King, the 800-pound gorilla of horror, writes an over one thousand page novel? It works: He validates his weight; and even throws it around, a little.Storytellers Unplugged
The Anatomy and Creation of a Story Pt. 2
This is an ongoing discussion of the process I use to write short stories…not that there is a set process, as it’s different each time. I started this in “Part One” back on my personal blog, and wanted to continue here to mix up the audience as much as possible.
In part one, I discussed the [...]
“This soap box is not big enough for the both of us.”
“This soap box is not big enough for the both of us.”
I asked readers for topics they would like to see me address in this blog, and I got a slew of great responses, something that will keep me in columns for a few months to come.
Here’s the question that got top billing for [...]
Providence, 1986
Providence, 1986 Wayne Allen Sallee 28 November 2009
I have a road trip, of sorts, ahead of me in a few hours. A zig-zag across the transit system of Chicago. I’m heading up north, but first I have to take the 55th Street bus to an artist friend’s place and drop off a few autographed books. There is [...]
The Ritual of Fine-Tuning My Writing
Most writers I know have rituals. These run the gamut from adjusting their desks a certain way to writing by candlelight to setting a glass of perfectly innocent booze on fire before each writing project as a sacrifice to the Writing Ancestors. They may sound silly, or wasteful (perfectly good booze, after all) or unintuitive, [...]
Thanksgiving
Friends and relatives around he world sing the same song: “We don’t have Thanksgiving here.” Here is New Zealand, South Africa, England, Israel…and on and on. This year, because we are down to three of us—my guardian angel/chef and one friend who lives alone—I stopped to think about what that means.
“We don’t have [...]
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Anyone who can put Clive Barker and the Dalai Lama in the same list of two has my attention.