My Favorite Mondegreens Reading time – 2 minutes Everybody know what mondegreens are? Good, let’s proceed. Also, this would be a great character trait for one of the folks in your next story. Leads to wonderful dialogue, both in real life and fiction. As if anyone around here cares about real life! To make this […]
Reading time: 4 minutes — New blog thing. The Tuesday Top 9, because 10 is too many. Also, Letterman already claimed the Top 10. Today’s topic: Going Topless: Lessons Learned From Driving a Convertible. Oh sorry, was that headline misleading? You were expecting something more titillating? Sorry, totes didn’t mean that. 9. Strap down important […]
Welcome a new player to the world of Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne Reading time: < 2 minutes – Something seems to draw me to Baltimore even when I don’t try. I can’t get enough of Laura Lippmann. And I’ll never be able to consume too much George Pelacanos. Both of those authors stay close […]
Jack Reacher dishes out a big helping of revenge. Reading time: 2 minutes – Since I’m teaching my son to drive, I thought this title sounded like a perfect read. This is my fifth Reacher novel, and I love that you don’t have to read them in order (11th in the series, published in 2007). […]
Reading time: 4 minutes Under the category of Stranger Things Have Happened – I mean that literally in this case because, look above – someone (okay, John Frain) just won a writing contest. OFF THE MENU Theme: Transformation. 800 words max. Bribing the judges with alcohol, while not condoned, was never expressly prohibited in the rules. […]
Your Gamblin’ Days are Over Reading time: 2 minutes – Sorry I’ve been absent, life got in the way. Which is better than death getting in the way, now that I think about it, so I’m not sorry. Gabe and I are back on the road again. Today’s road lesson: Thou shalt not gamble. He wants […]
Gabe Plays Chicken – and Survives — Reading time: 3 minutes: It’s called the hippocampus, the part of your brain responsible for memory, particularly the transference of short-term to long-term memory. Mine is defective enough that I have selective recall. I only remember good things. So in a couple days, when Gabe says to me, […]
— Reading time: 7 minutes Longer than usual, but I wanted to give a thorough review in case you’re debating on attending one of these workshops. Last weekend, I boarded the train to attend the Writer’s Workshop of Chicago. Actually, I waited three hours and thirty minutes at the Amtrak station and then boarded the train. […]
English Assignment Did Hemingway start it? Who cares? It’s my favorite English assignment. Saves time. Easy grading. I pretend it’s legitimate. Begin with the lazy student, calls himself a philosopher. For sale. Baby mittens. Never worn. F for borderline plagiarism. See what the shy kid wants to say. Patty. Never fit. New choice. Patrick! Explains […]
— Reading time: 2 minutes I’ll be brief. But twice as long as that. I’ve been absent as I finished a massive edit to my work in progress. Now, I begin my search for a couple beta readers. Meantime, back to the present. I mentioned more than a few times that my theme for the A […]
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