Archive for May, 2006
What Would You Do?
by David Niall Wilson
(This is posted a day early - we had no new essay on the 30th, and I didn’t want us to go another full day without a post…)
Every day, it seems, I read an article, or see a news item on television about something that stirs or outrages me. I can’t [...]
The High Wire
There are day jobs and then there are day jobs. Many of us storytellers have them (even if they’re at night), and writing time must be stolen from whatever leftover hours we can scrounge. Jeff Thomas recently posted a terribly perceptive essay about the tradeoffs and sacrifices involved in living such a double life; consider [...]
I Can’t Shoot Him, He’s From New Jersey
by Richard Dansky
E3 (or “The Electronic Entertainment Exposition”, as absolutely nobody other than the show’s laywers call it) is the biggest video game show on the North American continent, and possibly the world. It sucks up all of the Los Angeles Convention Center – yes, even the morlock-haunted caverns of Kentia Hall and [...]
Sometimes You Wing It
by Janet Berliner
Good thing I wrote my essay ahead of time because I’ve been basically sans computer for over two weeks. Given my particular limitations, that leaves me with little alternative but to read, think, watch television, think, look out of the window at the flowers, think…. I had just finished the rough [...]
Time to Take a Bow
Hi.
And goodbye.
I have so much enjoyed being part of Storytellers Unplugged, especially getting to know the writer’s on this blog. However it’s time for me to move on. Fresh blood needs to be spilled. Thank you everyone for your comments and especially for your insights into the business of writing. I’ve really [...]
Parallel Worlds
by JEFFREY THOMAS
A few weeks ago, one of my publishers made me an offer. Since they knew I’d be out of the country on vacation the whole month of July, and thus couldn’t afford another trip in August, they offered to take care of my expenses in bringing me to Los Angeles for the next [...]
The Illusive Literary Agent - Fact or Fiction?
Fact or Fiction:
For most of my adult life, I’ve believed in the possibility that Bigfoot exists. I live in Eastern Washington State, where the flow of new sightings and “evidence” is almost constant. I’ve never actually seen the legendary Sasquatch with my own eyes, but after hearing about something so frequently you begin to wonder. [...]
Hiroshima
by Richard Steinberg
“White shadow on a blackened wall.
Picture of young boy standing tall,
Pointing skyward where ashes fall
On nothing.
“Are we gone without a trace,
A burning ball in empty space.
Even God turns away his face
From nothing,” Amanda McBroom
Horror.
Dark fantasy.
They’re the words, to the right of this column, that in part define the contributors to STORYTELLERS. Words [...]
Waiting Game
By Jeff Mariotte
Writing for a living involves a lot of waiting, sometimes for things that you will never, ever get. We put a lot of ourselves down on every page, we writers, and often we’d like to hear from editors that they were moved, or amused, or scared, or thrilled, by what we turned [...]
Writing Every Day. Or Not.
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