Author: Kevin Fraleigh
Don't kiss me in the moonlight, I know where your lips have been.
I am a novelist, and much of my writing is predicated on the concept that within each of us is a psychological void. For some of us, the void is a divot, shallow and insignificant. But for many of us the void is a cavern, deep and expansive. We try to fill it with sex or drugs or religion, but the cavern has an insatiable appetite. This is where the dark things live―the things that fill our nightmares. The things that claw at our minds. The things that inspire the stories of horror, madness, and twisted realities. From the depths of that cavern come the seeds of my stories. Won’t you join me on the dark edges of reality?
Develop a Story
I didn’t start out to write a novel. I just had an idea. In this case I had the rather vague thought of a young man who wakes up one day to a world that was utterly silent and in which he was absolutely alone. It was to be a…
Starting the Process
Okay, so last year I finished writing my first novel, over 332K words. That having been accomplished, the next question is, “What the heck do I do with it?” It’s all well and good to be a novelist, but if no one ever reads it, was it worth the effort?…
The first step
Author: Kevin Fraleigh Published Date: March 14, 2011
Somewhere in my closet there is a notebook with dozens of yellowed, worn pages of prose and poetry I wrote in the late 60’s and early 70’s, back in a time when I still believed the pinnacle of the writer’s craft was to have his work captured on paper and…