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The rekindling of a (Twisted) love affair by James Burns
I blame Bette Davis. As an idiotic 10-year-old, I was allowed to stay up late to watch her terrifyingly demented performance in The Nanny and couldn’t sleep all night, convinced that she was hiding in the cupboard, re…
James Burns · 24 November 2024 · 4 min
Horrifying Tag Lines, Log Lines, and Other Descriptions by Kate Bemis
So, you have one sentence to get across everything that matters. What do you say? …I have no idea. Seriously. No idea. I hate tag lines. You’re going to tell me that, of the 88,000 words I’ve just written (each one as…
Kate Bemis · 10 October 2024 · 2 min
What is a horror? We had no idea, now we do. Kind of…
My name is Kate DeLong and I’m a fantasy writer stuffed with candy floss and rainbow unicorns. And I’m Sara Gustavsson Stark, another fantasy writer who thinks the world would be better if everyone ate more cookies. W…
Kate DeLong · 26 September 2024 · 2 min
A great break from writing with writing… Even for a 400 year old vampire!
If you are reading this post on Twisted50, you are most likely a writer, whether an aspiring writer or a 400-year-old vampire writer with 300 years of experience; it doesn’t really matter – we all love the same thing…
Thalia Lagou · 17 September 2024 · 1 min
Twisted50 Updates… Twisted50
Over the weekend we had a flurry of activity resulting in us approaching 100 stories submitted and nearly 1,000 feedback comments on the submitted works. AMAZING! Have you submitted but didn’t add a short bio? If that…
Chris Jones · 27 August 2024 · 1 min
Whooaaa! We now have 20 stories and counting…
Ok demented writers! We now have 20 stories to review in the site, here… https://twisted50.com/congratulations/ Plus Amy and myself just did a fabulous podcast about Twisted50 here… https://twisted50.com/twisted50-pod…
Chris Jones · 11 July 2024 · 1 min
A Missive on the Singularity by Claire Rye
Monday night and a forgettable dream wakes me from my slumber. I look over at the clock. 11.53pm. My mind starts a conversation with itself.. It’s past midday in London. They have announced the winners. You were going…
Chris Jones · 28 November 2018 · 1 min
Disclosure: I’d never written a single word of science-fiction… By Carmen Radtke
Disclosure: I’d never written a single word of science-fiction. Read, sure, watched, hell yes, but writing? Then along came Singularity50, and while I loved the concept I had no intention to take part. More importantl…
Chris Jones · 11 November 2018 · 1 min