Vertically-Endowed Tales — Valentine’s Day
Vertically-Endowed Tales are my version of Tall Tales. They are basically just goofing around, writing exercises, if one will. I don’t try to make them perfect. They are like jamming in a band, not really…
Category: Writing
Fun With Revision
I looked at some older things I wrote tonight. One story, And Then There Were None, was accepted for an anthology a few years ago. The anthology then got cancelled. The story went back into…
Shine on you crazy Shining
I watched Room 237 the other night. It’s a documentary about hidden meanings and subtext in The Shining. Some theories sound plausible. Others sound like a case of people reading too much into the movie….
Opening Paragraph Lesson Via Die Hard
I’ve read editors claim that if a story doesn’t grab them in the opening paragraph, they don’t bother reading the rest. Whether that’s true or not, let’s play around with opening paragraphs. I’ll pick a…
My Predator Movie
The original Predator is a classic. I saw it in the theater with my dad for my birthday. I didn’t think Predator was a classic at the time. It may seem tame to the modern…
I Am Legend
Things were different before the Internet. We sat down to do computer work…and actually did computer work rather than follow Internet links into oblivion. We never crawled into a corner, hugged our knees and lamented,…
Vertically-Endowed Tales — Widow’s Peak
I saw a person with a widow’s peak today. I couldn’t help but shudder. It’s the memories… There was this girl in my third grade class. She came in as a new student after Christmas…
Ode To John Steakley
I discovered John Steakley at Target in 1998. Life was a bit of a drag then…as it is wont to be at times. I craved a distraction and checked out the book section. A novel…