Archive for July, 2006
Because They’re There, of Course…
(Since we had no extra essay left this month for the 31st, I split the extra day with Mr. Steinberg - We’ll resume our normal schedule on the 1st.)
By David Niall Wilson
Life is full of situations that make us consider and reconsider the decisions we’ve made. What if I’d gone to college straight out [...]
And The Truth Shall Let You Sleep
By
Richard Steinberg
“Spend all your time waiting For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay.
There’s always one reason
To feel not good enough
And it’s hard at the end of the day.
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins.
Let me be empty
And weightless and maybe
I’ll find some peace tonight,” —Sarah McLachlan
Some peace tonight.
I’d [...]
Word Up, Word Out
(Note: Our regularly scheduled essay for today would have been from the balding and somewhat curmudgeonly Stephen Mark Rainey…unfortunately, Mark had a lot on his plate this month (including a trip to my house where he watched bad TV and slept on the couch) — so we have a standby essay from Mr. Scott [...]
SEASON OF THE NICHE
By Chet Williamson
Once upon a time, when all the world was fresh and new and people made telephone calls across wires instead of the ether, people would write “books.” These books might be mystery, science fiction, horror, western, romance, adventure, or what have you. Once written, the authors sent them to publishers in New York, [...]
We Are Honorable Craftsmen
One of the things that concerns folks in the video game industry to a surprising degree is whether or not we make what can generally be referred to as “art.” Roger Ebert thinks that we can’t, which is his prerogative, except that he insists on looking at games as if they were films, which they’re [...]
Language(s)
by Janet Berliner
Being multilingual has enriched my life. I had many languages left to learn when my hearing took flight, which saddens me greatly. While I could still learn a new one, I couldn’t do it my way. The easy way.
Language, to me, is music. You hear a new piece of [...]
Love’s Velvet Grip
By Stan Ridgley
“You have trouble with relationships.”
That was Ruth, my first agent speaking to me.
That was back in the mid-90s, when hope ruled me and I thought everything was possible, and that the world was waiting for me and my stories, global fingers rapping bored and impatient, anxious for me to entertain it as it [...]
I Love Cheese
Due to technical difficulties, my planned Storytellers Unplugged contribution, This Career Brought to You Courtesy of Myspace, will have to wait until next month. An amusing twist really, since the completion of the combination interview and essay was foiled when Myspace appeared to have undergone some kind of cataclysmic system failure.
Since giving up on Myspace [...]
A Wretched Lot Of Old Shriveled Creatures
By
Richard Steinberg
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them,” Catherine Drinker Bowen
If you don’t like this column, blame my fellow Storytellers contributor, Dave Wilson; he’s the one that set my mind [...]
Professionalism
By Jeff Mariotte
I once worked for a comic book artist who, when he decided he wanted to be a professional comic book artist, set himself a schedule and put in eight hours a day drawing comic book pages. By doing so, he accomplished two significant things: he learned that he could, indeed, handle the [...]
