Category Archives: WRITING

Well we have a couple of non-fiction pieces in the pile tonight, but that’s fine.  There is the intimacy of first person pov that reveals conflict in one, character study in another.  Just wish I had  had more time to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some excellent advice on writing by Roger Ebert; thanks to Mark Bernstein (yeah, that Storyspace hypertext fellow) for bringing it up: Mark Bernstein: Ebert: Newspaper Days: (Sunday, May 11, 2008MarkBernstein.org) Ebert recalls his early days as a sportswriter, covering Champaign-Urbana … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A note here of congratulations to Josh and Kas Radke on their new venture, Grail Quest Books, a publishing company that will be producing sci fi and fantasy literature in comic book as well as other literary forms.  Josh and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The strongest memory is of its scent of clear blue sky and growing green. White dresses in two long rows from the littlest to the senior girls wearing nylons for the first time.  Lilies in waves of perfume each time … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Still thinking, thinking, thinking on Molly’s story.  Two points of conflict and resolution; two ways of looking at the piece.  One is a mystery story, one is a mystery of internal conflict.  Themes, motifs, conflicts, all here to be discovered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wonder if we’d left a half hour later, arriving fifteen minutes late for the appointment, how long we’d have to wait.  I try to tell him, but he sits quiet, silent, nods without looking up. I finger the book … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Throw away all the how-to books; read Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler; therein you will learn most of what you need to know about writing. Continue reading →

The evening sky an angry man of steel blue clouds storming through the orange fire of dying passion. Continue reading →

Still and ever, more and more. A writer’s work is never done. And when it’s down to then or when, and or so, a or the, and all these have been corrected to the best meaning of the story, it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Went so far as to reformat a story in preparation of sending out after making quite a number of tweaking changes.  And can’t get myself to call it ready. There’s a point where you know what you’re mailing out to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In this case, with my dark side.  Oh c’mon; we all have it.  Even Jim has shown a bit of his in Vinny the Vulture’s rending of the freshly dead deer. Brought up on old traditional nasties such as Red … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nice post today at Charles Deemer’s The Writing Life that touches on the desire to write and the desire to make a living at it, and what may happen along the way.  Charles has prepared a hyperdrama that will be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Maybe it’s the familiarity after fifty readings.  Maybe it’s the deadlines–self-imposed, but surely there.  No submissions ready before the summer cutoffs, nothing new with punch.  I smack of novice; creative writing course form and story.  Only BoB was worth the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Very good post at Conversational Reading wherein Scott tackles the fine points of unreliable first person narrator and focuses on the grammatical skill of the teller of story.  I’ve come up against this many times in my own writing–both questions: … Continue reading → Continue reading →