Chad Grayson

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The Trunk

Every writer has one, the metaphoric trunk, the place where we hide all of the projects that didn’t work out, the ones we think will never see the light of day. At least, we hope. When I first started writing (I think I was 8) I was obsessed with Raiders of the Lost Ark and I wrote a story about Indiana Jones fighting a mummy in the middle of a […]

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The Big Question

There’s a meme going around asking writers to explain where they get their ideas, and some of the responses have been illuminating. Also, I was talking to one of my friends at the library about my books, and she asked me that question and I wanted to come up with a thoughtful answer but my initial response was: Fuck if I know! I mean, that’s not really true. I can

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Things I learned writing (almost) every day for the past year.

It’s been a year since I started writing at least 1000 words a day, every day. I can honestly say the habit kind of kicked my butt and changed my life at the same time. I wrote every day from May of last year through October. After that, I started taking Sundays off. I still take one day off a week, but a couple of months ago a friend and

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