by Rob Baddorf | Oct 15, 2019 | Mythic Monsters
Either it’s a good time or a good story. How would you like to have been exploring the outer corners of Madagascar and stumbled upon this monster?! The earliest well-known report of a man-eating tree originated as a literary fabrication written by Edmund Spencer...
by Rob Baddorf | Mar 29, 2019 | creating Friday Night Monster Club
America came close to losing it, 40 years ago. But losing what exactly? Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? The whole eastern sea-board? Thanks to the automated systems set in place, complete catastrophe was diverted–within one second. But are there lingering effects? In...
by Rob Baddorf | Mar 30, 2018 | Writing
Our friends at the New York Times got Lee Child to write a little op-ed about suspense. Well worth the read! How do you create suspense? I’m asked that question often, and it seems that every writers’ symposium has a class with that title. It’s an important technical...
by Rob Baddorf | Oct 12, 2017 | creating Friday Night Monster Club
Okay, we had to make this video. Why? you don’t ask yourself, but should have. This is what it’s like writing with a partner. The bumps, the redirections, the start-overs, the what-are-you-thinking?! moments all wrapped up into one....
by Rob Baddorf | Aug 16, 2017 | creating Friday Night Monster Club
Monsters are frightening, yes. But NOT as frightening as handing your book to a group of middle schoolers and saying, “Here, read this and tell us what you really think…” But that’s what we did this summer. And then on Wednesday we sat down...
