On escapism too often vilified instead of understood.
A meditation on when, and how, Dashiell Hammett stopped writing.
And where almost nothing else happened, either, save for people talking at each other. A case study.
Those who create because they want to, the way they want to, are not children of lesser gods.
On the anatomy of a discarded story.
Welcome, after a long hiatus, to Rumor Control once again. Here are the facts of what stories I'm working on in the new year.