So you’re waist-deep in a creative writing degree, when your half-baked plan to be a literary wonder stalls. Perhaps, you should have been a technical writer. People keep saying that technical writers are always in demand. Technical writing would certainly …
Alcoholic Authors in Winehouse Lifetimes
Amy Winehouse’s death feeds the Romantic mythos of artists dying at a young age in a blaze of glory. Dying at 27, she is preceded by other members of the 27 club, including Kurt …
What Books Remain after Borders Liquidation?
With the liquidation and imminent demise of Borders Group, the streets of literary virtue are drenched with the blood of pedestrian interests. The buildings of communal story-telling burn with the fires of online isolation. …
I may not have mastered the Art of Fiction.
I have mastered the Art of Cheap Starbucks Coffee.
As an underemployed fellow who loves his Starbucks coffee, I have developed the fine art of …
Some novels are rumored to be too dense, arcane, or pretentious to be read in their entirety. Those sorts of novels are my specialty, and I have been emboldened to complete five such novels from beginning to end.
100 Years …
I have read stories that have started off rather badly in my opinion with an extended physical description of the main character. In some cases, every new character is introduced with an extended physical description. Of course, these descriptions include …
Way back when I was more earnestly learning the craft of writing, I was reading through several different books on writing fiction. Almost immediately, I felt that I was reading the same book over and over again. It was if …
