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 …
Here are my top six Philip K Dick novels. (Spoilers, probably)
Philip K Dick alternate realities, codpieces, dark scanners, and time out of joint.
Man in the High Castle
Dick’s best novel. Story about an alternate reality, where Axis powers …
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 …
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Last week I was pondering what contests I should enter this month, and I created a short list of 24 writing contests based on due date and topic or genre of the contest.
This week I’ll need …
Dear—you don’t mind if I call you dear do you? Whether you are following William Blake, the self publisher, or Dr. Zaius, publishing fundamentalist, you will want to promote your fiction. If you are self-publishing or subsidy publishing, …
As I have mentioned before, the downfall of past fiction efforts has been an overly designed approach. I have written and completed a handful of short fiction stories using this approach, and some of them have turned out OK; however, …
You are about to read an online article by an Unpublished Guy, Fiction Novels, a Profile of Italo Calvino. You crouch in front of the computer screen and use the pointing device to select the Read More link. The site …
The Difference Between Creative Writing and Technical Writing – Le Pigeon
What do you think a pigeon would taste like? Would it be dark meat or white meat? Do they fly as much as ducks or geese? That would mean …
