Archive - The Story House by Patti M Hall

you got Frankenstein all wrong, in my humble opinion

Pt 4 we popularize the title but that was the doctor's name not the Creature's

Jul 17 •

you can't make this up

pt 3 the truth is compelling enough and then some, Mary Shelley's tragic life and the impact on her writing

Jul 14 •

Relearning to be present this summer

my grandson and the rain brought me back

Jul 13 •

summer 2025 fiction I'm loving

Jul 12 •

Wandering to locate truth

pt. 2 What Mary Shelley continues to teach me about writing for truth's sake

Jul 9 •

Mary and Me: Fear is the making of a good ghost story

pt 1. series about Mary Shelley and her influence on my writing life

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Dad and the making of me

mental pictures may not exist, but he made me a writer

Jun 15 •

What's in your book, isn't the real question

in or out, just write some pages! The rest is BS time wasting.

Jun 11 •

May 2025

Finding out I was a Frankenstein expert (revised)

and other lessons my memoir is teaching me

May 18 •

April 2025

Scared sh#tless IS a writing strategy

take from the me...if you aren't crapping yourself, you need to dig deeper

Apr 20 •

March 2025

busting genres has never been my thing til now

genre blending, creativity and permission to not know

Mar 30 •

summer 2025 fiction I'm loving

Mar 23 •

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