by runestone admin | Jul 29, 2024
As writers, we all know there will come a time in our fiction when we must end the life of a beloved character. So when is the right time to kill a character? It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment when a writer knows it is time to end the storyline of a...
by runestone admin | Jul 22, 2024
Blackout, erasure, found, collage—these are all forms of poetry that find themselves through use of pre-written words. (For this post, I’ll use “found” as an umbrella term). While sometimes diminished as lesser literary forms—either due to their simplicity or to the...
by runestone admin | Jul 15, 2024
I got into Dungeons & Dragons because I was too scared to publish. Like many writers, I have a paralyzing fear of wide scrutiny, of my love and hard work being torn apart or rejected out of hand before an audience can even see it. Some of us have even...
by runestone admin | Jul 8, 2024
How often do you find yourself perusing the horror section at the library or bookstore? When do you find yourself wanting to read something that disturbs and unsettles you? Unless you’re like me, with a sick desire to be forever scarred by the literature I...
by runestone admin | Jul 1, 2024
A little more than 10 years ago, I started to play Minecraft. At first, I just watched my father play Minecraft over his shoulder, but eventually, he got annoyed by my back-seat gaming, so he set me up with my own computer and Minecraft account. Once the...