Category Archives: WRITING

In no way do I intend to discredit or denigrate the seriousness of the malady referred to as MPD or Multiple Personality Disorder, as I find it a fascinating topic of research of the mind.  But since it came up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tonight, some thoughts on what’s here and what’s not.  Empirical theory of philosophy challenging not only faith, but possibly memory of that which once could be seen, touched but no longer there.  What is real, and does real endure or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You write down your story, or someone’s story, and before you know it, you have close to two thousand words.  then you stop and take a long hard look at it, and you’re back down to nine hundred.  Then little … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t have a clue (although I have read books and articles and weblogs) as to how many writers write in the same method, but I tend to start from an opening paragraph and try to make it into a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay, same dark garage and yet another cup of coffee, morning light moving in tiny patches of white snow, and what would I do if I wasn’t me? Instead, I’m a 68 year-old, 6 foot-four black man with a wife … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is so hard; freeing the mind to go wherever it wants, and yet keeping control on the story.  I’m writing differently than I’ve written before, and I’m writing differently too.  In the first case, hopefully improving the use of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What happens if, the light you finally see at the end of the tunnel…goes out? If the black bear that chases you in dreams shows up in the backyard one morning? When you discover that the gypsies really did steal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is no secret that I have been exceedingly pushy to the point of being annoying on the theory of read and write to learn to write something that someone wants to read.  There’s no sense of entitlement in me, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Got some good advice from a friend last night regarding Big Tim Dawson, and I recognized it immediately as the path I should have taken yesterday in my thousand-word romp with him. We can start out with a great opening, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A thought occurred to me this morning regarding the simple act of writing down in text the different language or accent nuances to bring the voice and tone in line with the setting of a story.  That said, I hope … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is good.  I’m up at four a.m., but did catch a few hours’ sleep and am in a writing mood.  This afternoon I’d written some more on Big Tim Dawson (which I’ll post in a second) but more importantly, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An excellent post at Joe Faust’s entitled All I Have to Do is Dream (page stubbornly insists that you want to download Firefox, but for IE users, just click continue to read in plain text) regarding the creativity employed to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I have not made much more progress on the pseudohypertext narratives that I’m planning for the Spring issue of otto, I have at least become involved in the last two stories (posted recently) that show promise. It has been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It began as one of those glorious mornings, bursting with sunlight and the cry of a bluejay amid silent waking before the city boiled into the whirlwind of life on hot fried-egg sidewalks with blaring horns and middle-finger anger offered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An untethered kite of an eagle, riding the waves of wind in a sea-blue sky. Continue reading →