Top 10 Influences: #6 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway #5 – The Writer’s Art by James J. Kilpatrick Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #7 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Top 10 Influences: #7 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley There are those who say they hated reading […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #8 – Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Top 10 Influences: #8 – Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko I know, I know. This is not a single book. Sue me. When I […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau
Top 10 Influences: #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells I remember reading three books by H.G. Wells when I was a kid. The Time Machine was a fun book. […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #10
Amy Sterling Casil recently pointed the “give us the top 10 books that influenced you” finger at me. I’m really glad she did, because until then I had seen the meme running around but hadn’t really thought about it in any great detail, and when you really take a minute to think about it the […]
Read More ...On being the last one to know
So, yeah, I’ve been playing with a little bit of a new look to the site. # It is cliché to say that a writer is often the last person to know what it is that they’ve actually written. Sometimes you hear this when a writer says they don’t know if what they’ve done is […]
Read More ...“a sort of aesthetic trilogy”
When I talk to newer writers in particular, but sometimes even more experienced ones, the idea of writing seems to always focus on the words. By that I mean that they worry about their grammar and punctuation, or whether they have the right vocabulary, or have meticulously chosen the exact perfect word in the exact […]
Read More ...Writer vs. Writer
As a member of their KDP program, I received a notice from Amazon today that suggested I write the head of the Hachette Publishing group a sharply worded mail. As if that will make any difference in their pissing match. Personally, I think the whole thing going on is enough to make the heads of […]
Read More ...Writing in Other Cultures
As synchronicity would have it, I’m in the process of the second pass at a novel I’m titling Chasing the Setting Sun. It’s a follow-up to See the PEBA on $25 a Day, and it’s set in Japan—a place I’ve never been. Here I am yesterday, the day after I start in earnest on it, […]
Read More ...Getting started again … and a special discount!
Having actually finished the notorious episode 8, I’m now in process of figuring out what I’m doing next. Yes, there’s always a next. Thank goodness. # Four Days in May special! I put this out on twitter/facebook earlier, but I should note here that John Bodin and I are celebrating the last month of the […]
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