

From Picture To Page: How Mental Images Produce Stories
When explaining his fiction writing process, prolific author C.S. Lewis wrote that his books began with seeing pictures in his head. “At first,” he elaborated, “they were not a story, just pictures . . . a picture of a faun carrying parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my head since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'" As I went about writing my first story, my process unfolded in much


A Little Something Extra To Go With Murthered Episode 2, Murder Ends The Affair: The Hall-Mills Case
Ever since I was a teenager, for some macabre reason, I have enjoyed reading and watching anything true crime. Over the years, as I absorbed the admonition to "make a living doing what you are passionate about," I thought about how I might involve true crime reporting in such a venture. How could I make a living writing about such a topic? I still may not have the answer, because I am not making a living by covering true crime . . . yet. When the idea for Most Foully Murthere