Valley of the Boom
National Geographic has a series on the internet browser wars of the mid to late 1990s. I was in commercial software development and remember when…
Category: Craft
Sub Categories
Choice of form to write
Staying motivated to write
Writing style
Short Story Craft
Writing craft elements that I learned through practicing these last 10 years. Wanting to arrange in my mind, that means writing them.
Wordsmithing and Perspective
Hearing a single wordsmith perspective again and again ... the person may stop noting the image of a backwoodsman, only see an antisocial vagrant.
Up a Steep Hill
As I rode my bike up the steep hill, I kept focused on the top of the hill
Tennessee Williams Lived Here
The charm of the composing stories in the quiet, away from the hurly-burly of the Old Quarter street the house fronted, appeals even now.
Zen in the Art of Writing
Following Bradbury's advice, I do a thousand words on stories, fleshing them out. Those that retain gusto, I go with and try to improve.
Goodreads and Book Snapshots
Goodreads supported book snapshot reviews better than my site. Now I use Goodreads for my new reading.
Speed of a Novel. Middlemarch
More action with shorter sequels is the rule in commercial fiction these days, but I mustn't forget that the sequels must be full enough to…
Words and Writing
What else accounts for the difference most of us experience between the vigor of our speech and the difficulty of our writing?
Reading Appreciation Class
One lady shook her head and said to me, "I wanted to ask him (the teacher) why don't we read any stories that are happy"