• ARG,  Blogging the Dark Art ARG,  Immersive Fiction,  J.C. Hutchins,  Personal Effects: Dark Art

    Be Afraid Dark Man

    Blogging the Dark Art ARG Week Two Be afraid Dark Man. We’re coming after you. Saturday we started sifting through the clues to solve the murders in the Personal Effects:Dark Art Novel. This is the most fun I’ve ever had reading a book. This is Violet, checking some facts. Wait, what’s that over her shoulder? I didn’t see that when I snapped the picture! Our sleuth headquarters has great atmosphere. Our notes and clues. Tracking clues online. Caroline and the body pic. Now this is one that Kelly liberated from the Brinkvale Site back in January I think. They locked down the login right after that, so we assumed we…

  • eMuse Summer Madness Contest,  Grief,  Personal,  Personal Effects: Dark Art,  Poetry,  writing

    When winning a “Madness” Competition is a good thing

    My posting here on the blog trickled to almost nothing when my Dad died a few months ago. I had no energy for anything and started to wonder if I’d ever find my words again. When words did start to trickle from my pen, they were so dark that I joked to my sister that if the family saw what I was writing they’d have me committed. I wrote my way out of the blues, eventually, and the project that played a big part in helping me get there  won the poetry portion of eMuse’s Summer Madness Contest: We received a number of fantastic submissions. As I read through them…