by Carter Wilson | Jun 1, 2020 | Personal stuff, Quarantine, Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
Hello, folks. How are you? You getting through these very strange days with ease or with struggle? Likely both, I imagine. Have you been connecting more, reaching out to those you haven’t talked to in awhile, just to ask them the simple question you okay? Me...
by Carter Wilson | May 1, 2020 | Personal stuff, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
You’ve heard me go on and on about my favorite band James, whose lyrics I’ve used in my last two books and, hopefully, the next one as well. Their latest album, Living in Extraordinary Times, was released a year and a half ago, and is essentially a protest...
by Carter Wilson | Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
Jessica and I just got back from our annual ghost-hunting excursion at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. For those of you unfamiliar with this tradition, for the past six years I’ve gone to the famously haunted hotel to do some writing and search for ghosts,...
by Carter Wilson | Mar 1, 2020 | Personal stuff, Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
I pay attention when another author’s book captivates my attention. I’ll analyze the detail, pace, prose, and voice, and try to figure out what exactly it was that grabbed me. (Sometimes the opposite is true: I’ll read a terrible book and obsess...
by Carter Wilson | Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard
Happy New Year and new decade! This is the time of year I walk into my hometown gym and there’s twice as many people as usual. Everyone’s ready for the new year. New resolutions, fresh dose of determination. But did you know less than 10% of people keep...
by Carter Wilson | Dec 1, 2019 | Holidays, Personal stuff, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard
Rejoice, as the Halloween highlight reel is here. As my long-term readers know, each year I comb though video footage to collect the choicest screams from my Halloween house-staging. This was the first year I moved the set from the porch to inside the garage, allowing...
