Daily Archives: May 18, 2009

Knowing your characters better than your spouse

Sometimes it feels like you almost have to know your characters better than you know your spouse, to be a successful writer. While I love my wife, I can’t say I know all her habits backward and forward. That isn’t essential in a marriage; but to write a novel, you have to know if your …

May 18, 2009 – 2:43 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Touchable ghosts

I want to create a ghost who’s touchable. That the goal with my latest project. I’m tired of the old conventions that insist a ghost passes through everything and is mere mist. What’s scary about mist? A ghost who is touchable, however, has more impact. You don’t even know you’re being haunted until it’s far …

May 18, 2009 – 2:36 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Finally making progress again

I’m finally making progress again on my first Pizza Delivery Mystery novel, Thirty Minutes Or Less. Longtime readers will remember I lost over 100 surplus pages of manuscript during a hard drive crash in which I had no data backup. It’s been a long road toward working up the energy to tackle the novel afresh, …

May 18, 2009 – 2:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)