Category Archives: WRITING

I swore I wouldn’t but I indeed have sent one of my latest short stories out to select literary journals (select here meaning open reading time and sign up and click rather than print out, besides the "know your market" … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wonder if I’m the only one who grimaced at the full screen slideshow display where ‘complexity’ was spelled without benefit of an e or i.  It’s difficult to proofread your own work, and it often takes readers or a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s downtown Pittsburgh from my room on the 9th floor of the Omni William Penn Hotel: I sat in that courtyard watching people and the activity and what it produced is a story.  There were about twenty teenagers skateboarding off … Continue reading →

The seamstress Ivy mends the broken pot with fancy stitches of embroidered green binding clay and life together in the night, one feathered leave at a time.

Well at least I completed a story while I was here, thanks to Alan Bigelow’s flash site Webyarns where he presents his work.  Try one yourself: Webyarns/My Novel Continue reading →

A skateboard competition in the courtyard (justice still?) flying teens from three feet high into a hard slapping landing.  Here and there a crash and burn, reminiscent of the WW II aces maybe they want to be. A wedding over … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(Not to be confused with Philadelphia Story and Paul Newman) Listening to the city. A flock of friends supporting one of their own because someone’s done him wrong. Stone benches, arched boughs, a courtyard serving appropriately as a court of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Got ideas for a new hypertext story on the flight, above the clouds, wondering if the world had disappeared below them.  Got another idea over a beer, wondering about all the many sides, facets, versions of a single event is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In case you didn’t get the email, the first meeting of the resurrected Narratives Writing Group will be held tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the Tunxis Library Room #7-219.  We have a short story and a poem ready to workshop … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I walk the backyardsoft and green grass whisperingan urge to cartwheel Continue reading →

Some truly beautiful images and poems to match them in a 100-day challenge. Words by Steve Ersinghaus inspired to give even more life to the artwork of Carianne Mack’s resolve to paint an image a day through the summer break. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

First, I’m considering keeping this weblog open for writing purposes, thus keeping Spinning clean for literature reviews and reality, and Hypercompendia for new media.  Though the topics often overlap, it’s worked pretty well over the last few months though few … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just heard this from a customer the other day, a quote attributed to Twain: "I wish I had more time to write a shorter letter." Continue reading →