Black Hamlet aka Roy Stanton is the author of 31 books, including Loser! One Hand, and Who is Black Hamlet?. Black Hamlet lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long stint in Los Angeles and an even longer stint in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
After 30 books, Black Hamlet is one of the most prolific and innovative poets of the 21st century, with his unique applications of form poetry, free verse, some slam and rap for good measure, and his signature forays into the hard and soft sciences.
As well as his poetry, Black Hamlet has just finished his first novel: LOSER!
Topical, confronting, sometimes abrasive, Black Hamlet plans to keep evolving and producing until he has nothing left to say. A day he struggles to foresee.
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Black Hamlet aka Roy Stanton is the author of 31 books, including Loser! One Hand, and Who is Black Hamlet?. Black Hamlet lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long stint in Los Angeles and an even longer stint in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
After 30 books, Black Hamlet is one of the most prolific and innovative poets of the 21st century, with his unique applications of form poetry, free verse, some slam and rap for good measure, and...
The author takes you on a uniquely personal, yet achingly familiar journey across four continents and fifty years, journeying down dark rabbit holes and exploring the depths of our flawed humanity, before revealing the light of redemption.
This is not a tale of religious awakening or a lecture on...
The premise for Octaves is at once simple, and complex – typical for me! I have highlighted 8 different forms and produced 8 poems for each form, each form covering a self-imposed theme or idea. For example, PART TWO, featuring Petrarchan Sonnets, has “eight-legged entities” as its theme. These cover arachnids, Gods, and whatever else took my...
Sometimes I can be doing chores, walking the dog, watching TV, or a host of other activities when the urge hits me - WRITE!!!
And if I neglect that internal command I often pay the price by forgetting what my thought was, forgetting the exact plot twist or word usage that inspired me, forgetting that I am a writer who has no choice but to write - whenever the urge hits me.
What's worse, is forgetting what you wanted to write WHEN you're in the middle of writing it!
Very few people still use a pen and paper for writing but I definitely do for keeping character notes, geographic notes, plot profiles, that sort of thing.
But when it comes to the actual story itself, it's laptop and/or phone. I used to be a "laptop only" guy but converted to the phone when I realized how handy it is to access Google and other research, in real-time, while you're writing.
Both phone and laptop have their benefits and downsides so it is individual choice, sometimes in the...
When you are in the business of creating characters you will eventually be faced with the question: "Should I kill this character off?" And very soon after that, " ... and how should I kill him or her?"
Some characters are easier to kill off than others. An evil dictator, morally repugnant, with little to no redeeming features, is quite easy to kill. Sometimes, it can even be fun. Or cathartic. A heroine with a kindly and pleasant disposition, someone who continually does good deeds, and...
