Category: Writing
Visioning Dystopia, A Mental Exercise
I have a mental exercise I do as I’m driving down the interstate, rather than simply enduring that all too familiar, all too painful, commute. As I drive I look around me―at the landscape, at the other cars and trucks, at the people, especially the people―and I wonder, as they…
A Review Of Wednesday’s Child by Alan Zendell
On Amazon there are more than twenty novels entitled Wednesday’s Child . And this is one of them. Wednesday’s Child poses an interesting dilemma for Dylan Brice. He goes to sleep on Tuesday night, but wakes up on Thursday morning. He goes to sleep on Thursday night and wakes up…
What Would You Write?
At sometime during the night she had migrated to his side of the bed. She clutched what she still considered to be his pillow, although he had not slept on it, had not shared her bed, for more than a year. It was as if the sheets still held his…
Write Your Destiny And Your Fate!
Destiny― the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. Fate― the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control. In the Any Tomorrow trilogy, destiny and fate are referenced many times and, in fact, destiny is a…
Take A Shot, Then Take A Shot. Just That Easy.
An excerpt from Any Tomorrow: The Curse. He buried her that afternoon in the spot she so long ago had chosen for herself. He fashioned a wooden cross and marked her place. If the world ever regains its sanity, he vowed, he would replace the cross with a granite headstone. …
What Is Your Inspiration?
I was coming home from work the other day when I happened to pass a woman driving an old station wagon. What you would take away from that momentary observation is probably much different than what I did. For her sake and yours, I hope so. For the storyteller, inspiration…
Oh, the Horror! It is Horror!
Writing for me is a very intimate process. My stories well up first as images to form a vision. Sometimes they are intensely detailed and other times mere wisps of idea. My challenge is to translate the still fresh vision into words that can, hopefully, accurately portray it. This is…
What Should I Do Now?
Well, it’s been almost a year since I published the first volume of my Any Tomorrow Trilogy. And I must say that the results have been remarkably unremarkable. I made a decision to break up my 300K word novel into three parts, but my feeling is now that it just…
The Reaction I Hoped For
The weekend following my last post, my wife and I drove over to Largo to see my niece run the mile and 800 meter races in her track meet. For us that’s like a two and a half hour drive. Normally that’s okay, we can find things to talk about…
Interview Me! Review Me! I’m Yours!
[To the reader: A recent visit to Indiebookspot.com suggests the nature of the site has changed pretty dramatically. The interview referenced is no longer available.] How cool is this. Indiebookspot.com just published their interview with me . And if you as my opinion it’s great reading. In fact after reading…
