UNCOMFORTABLY DARK Feature!
Scroll down in the Rusty Chair archive to read our feature on Candace Nola's terrific site, Uncomfortably Dark! The feature includes a short mini-review and interviews with the authors and the publisher (me!).
Enjoy!
Scott Dyson on linear/non-linear storytelling
So I'm going to start out by admitting that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm using the terms "linear" and "non-linear" in a specific way, to describe certain observations I make about stories I've read. I'm also using them to talk about my own writing, my successes and failures as a writer, and what I try to do to make it better. "America's Pastime," my entry into the Gates of Chaos anthology, was very much a linear tale when it was written. I wrote it in the 1990's for a contest that was called "The Publican Brief." (The contest name was a mashup of a popular John Grisham novel and the name of the Delphi forum that I helped to run.) We were given six words and an opening sentence for this particular contest. Some of the contests only gave the six words. Some gave opening sentences. Some gave a topic. I recall that this one was both because I remember the opening sentence: "All things are fou...
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