There is freedom to confessing the events in this book. I do so unapologetically for myself and my mother. Writers usually use one of two methodologies to create a story. The first is the outline method, where the writer creates a road map of the story's direction. The second is the "pantser" who writes by the seat of their pants, spontaneously creating each chapter until the story unfolds from them like alchemy. BAKER, LIAR, CON MAN, THIEF, … [Read more...]
M. William Phelps Explains: A Serial Killer’s Fictional Counterpart
'And all of it is about him [Happy Face Killer]. His insecurities. His fantasies. His anger. His narcissism. His inadequacy. His incompetence. His failures as a man.' Over the course of 12 years, I received over nine thousand pages of letters from a violent psychopath. Keith Hunter Jesperson became known as the "Happy Face Killer" after doodling (with no intention of it becoming his nickname) a smiley face on a letter he wrote to a newspaper. … [Read more...]
