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Jay Smith

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Jay Smith is an award-winning author, audio dramatist, and podcaster responsible for the acclaimed audio horror series HG World and the pulp super-heroine radio serial Hidden Harbor Mysteries.

Jay's other works include the short story collection Seven til Sunrise, the gamer-geek satire Rise of the Monkey Lord, and the upcoming how-to book Anatomy of an Audio Drama. Jay appears on various podcasts including Behind the Screams, The Chronic Rift, and The Batcave Podcast.

Jay holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Seton Hill University and lives in Central PA with his wife, kids, and a neurotic sneaky weirdo polydactyl cat.
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Jay Smith A mild, yet effective laxative and a reminder that writing is just like any job and there is a work product involved. If I can't sit for 8 hours at my…moreA mild, yet effective laxative and a reminder that writing is just like any job and there is a work product involved. If I can't sit for 8 hours at my day job and produce nothing, I sure as hell cannot waste a day pondering the depths of my belly button pretending the muses have abandoned me. If the story isn't working, there's research to do. If not that, there's plotting, re-reading, new reading, and other related tasks to perform.(less)
Jay Smith Live a life. Explore. Fail. Struggle and fail again. Know what it is like the be hurt and hate and feel all the negative things people tell you to avo…moreLive a life. Explore. Fail. Struggle and fail again. Know what it is like the be hurt and hate and feel all the negative things people tell you to avoid. Make a mistake and hit a wall. Then use that pain in your fiction. Your pain and conflict are the core of drama.(less)
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“When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.”
Harlan Ellison, Shatterday

Elmore Leonard
“I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.”
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W. Somerset Maugham
“I don’t think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things,’ he said gravely. He hesitated. ‘It’s very difficult to put into words. The moment you try you feel embarrassed. You say to yourself: “Who am I that I should bother myself about this, that, and the other? Perhaps it’s only because I’m a conceited prig. Wouldn’t it be better to follow the beaten track and let what’s coming to you come?” And then you think of a fellow who an hour before was full of life and fun,and he’s lying dead; it’s all so cruel and meaningless. It’s hard not to ask yourself what life is all about and whether there’s any sense to it or whether it’s all a tragic blunder of blind fate.”
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