by mike | Sep 28, 2020 | Books, Editing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Yes, I mean that literally…but not in a nasty way. Quite the opposite. I’ve written over two dozen novels and countless stories, articles, blog posts, etc., and there has been one consistency over the decades that I’ve been engaged in this: I do my best preliminary...
by mike | Sep 24, 2020 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I changed the title of this post, first presented in 2016, but left the introduction pretty much as is, because things haven’t changed much, and if anything they’ve gotten worse. I’m sure you’ll know what I mean. This past year has been a challenging one, to say the...
by mike | Sep 10, 2020 | Baseball, Books, Magical realism, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
Major League Baseball is paying tribute to the late Roberto Clemente, a great ballplayer and an even greater humanitarian. In a post about the late writer, W.P. Kinsella (author of “Field of Dreams”), I had included excerpts from one of his short stories, “Searching...
by mike | Aug 27, 2020 | Books, Editing, Films About Books, Films About Writers, Movies, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Was renowned writer Thomas Wolfe a stable genius? This post first ran in 2016. With regard to the 2016 biographical drama, Genius, I could have added “Films About Editors” to my blog as a new series. But really, how many films have book editors, such as the legendary...
by mike | Aug 17, 2020 | Books, Life, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Something excellent happened for WOMEN last week. This post, which I presented a couple of years back, was relevant then, and I think it is even more so now. Recently, I discovered something about myself that, quite honestly, I did not like. It has to do with a...
by mike | Aug 13, 2020 | Books, Films About Writers, Movies, Museums, Uncategorized, Writing |
Hardly seen by anyone, this film is an excellent study of a great writer. I first presented the post in 2016. I first saw this 2016 film six months ago, during a limited release in the U.S. I’m talking real limited—hardly in any theaters, and in most cases for no...
