It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.
Stephen Graham JonesThis is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.
Stephen Graham JonesWriting, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.
Stephen Graham JonesFootball's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.
Stephen Graham Jones