How to Teach Story Writing (You can’t) You learn/teach writing the same way you learn to write with a pencil. Think back to your first days at school and to how you learned to print with a pencil. Your teacher would draw a letter or letters of the alphabet on the chalk board and you […]
Teaser = An advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers’ interest Comments on this work are welcome. The Daemon Boat (The Education of a Steampunk Spy) Character 0ne The Porter knocked at the first class cabin door. The porter waited, standing stiffly staring at the door. The seconds dragged by. The Porter […]
You never know when a story idea will hit you. Open up, look around and be on the lookout for the unusual, the odd, the interesting. The other day I went into a store and bought an item for 99 cents. I handed the cashier lady a dollar bill. It wasn’t a 99 cent store. […]
If you’re going to write great stories use great tools. You don’t need a Mac computer to write. Get it out of your head right now. You don’t need an Ipad, Ipro or Mac. The computer you have doesn’t make you a writer. You can write a book or a bunch of books with a […]
If you’re going to write great stories use great tools. Go out and buy a notebook right now. Buy one that you will keep with you. Writing on the back of an old envelope is OK if your desperate but you’re a writer. Instead of always searching for a scrape of paper to write on, […]
If you’re going to write great stories use great tools. The basic tool of a writer is the pen and pencil. Warning when you use good tools be like a bank. Trust your friends but, chain your pens down. Pens have legs. They’re like little children, when your not looking they run off. Your most […]
Back in the 1960s me and a couple of friends we riding in a car a couple of miles outside of town. We passed two people walking along the road picking up soda bottles. My friend sitting by the passenger door threw his soda bottle out the window for the two to pick up. We […]
Writer after writer write or blog about the wonders of writing in a coffee shop. Don’t believe it. The other day the city was paving the street in front of where I live. The road would be closed most of the day. The noise from the road crew last time they did this was bad […]
The sheriff department provides police services for the town next to mine. I was driving home yesterday and a sheriff’s car past me. It was dust covered, dirty. At first I thought the officer might have been driving down dirt roads of a farmer’s field to get the car that dirty. The sheriff’s budgets is […]
The other day I went into Starbucks to do some writing. The weather outside and at my house was hot and ridiculously muggy. Starbucks is air conditioned and my house isn’t. I’m not suppose to have caffeine which limits the choices of what I can order at Starbucks. I walked in and ordered a bagel. […]