I started out liking Tom Hanks’ stories in his book titled Uncommon Type. His writing has an easy flow to it. If he enjoys writing, then it shows in his work. If he doesn’t, then he could quit and go back to acting. His short stories (so far, I’m still reading) have a witty, humanity-conscious …
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Frog Sauce
It’s kind of like trying to imagine your own death. You can’t do it. No matter how many deaths you may have seen. Plants. Insects. Animals. Humans. Even if you’ve witnessed the demise of other humans, you’ll be disarmed to try to imagine your own. You’ll suddenly find yourself out of imagination ammunition. You’ll be …
Writer Types
There are so many types of writers. As a writer, you try to persuade others. In every case I can imagine, the writer’s goal is to persuade. A skywriter’s goal is to let everyone know that Harold loves Ingrid. The poet tries to elicit an emotion. The spin doctor tries to confound. The philosopher aims …
Literary Dysfunction
One of the peeves I have with the literary world is that they don’t have a lot of agreement between publishers. When you submit a work to one publisher after another it would be nice if they all agreed upon one font. But they have different font preferences between them, and even sometimes within the …
Two Covers
It’s probably obvious, since the black one is more finished, that we went with the black cover. Go ahead and let me know what you think anyway. I’m totally cool with constructive criticism. What do you think? Quick, tell me before you read on, because I’m going to say what I think, and what I …
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