Archive for April, 2007
There are stories all around us…welcome to my world.
By David Niall Wilson
I wanted to take some time, now that the long cold winter of my disconnection has passed, to revisit one of our favorite topics. Regardless of how many times it is asked and answered, the question of where stories are found, bought, traded or raised through arcane ritual is most prevalent [...]
Feeling Gloomy Today
By Dick Hill
The other day Bill Maher spoke of new theories that link the disappearance of bees with microwaves from cell phone usage, or some such thing. With no bees, plant life disappears. Guess who’s next. He quoted Albert Einstein, the great forward thinker, who said that if the bees died, mankind [...]
I’d Walk A Mile For Bicameral
Wayne Allen Sallee
04.28.07
Okay, bad pun. I’ll admit it. But at least a large amount of the SU group will get the reference; I used this as an entry title on my blog, and I know the cigarette slogan went right over the head of most of my readers. (I digress, as usual, [...]
The Crack of the Pen: Baseball and Writing
Thomas Boswell famously titled one book of essays on baseball Why Time Begins On Opening Day. There are plenty of reasons for the baseball fan, casual or fanatic, to agree with him. After all, baseball is the writers’ game. Look at the bookshelves. From Moneyball to Feeding the Monster to The Echoing Green, the books [...]
Bradbury and I
by Janet Berliner
As often as I’ve met Ray Bradbury, he’s always said, “Do I know you?” each time. I’ve seen him riding around Santa Monica on his bicycle. I wave and he waves back, but I imagine him saying to himself, “Have I met her?”
The first time I officially interviewed Ray was in Santa [...]
The Vision Thing
By Stan RidgleyIndulgence is a scarce commodity in our coarse, impatient world.
Yield a bit to me, please.
I touch upon several related points, as is my wont and compulsion in these monthly essays — the conundrum of “vision,” the connection between the worlds of business and art, the difficulty of communicating a truly unique vision, the [...]
Budgeting time.
There are a number of topics I could bring up in my monthly posts here at Storytellers Unplugged (some of which I might even be qualified to comment on). Trying to pick one is, frankly, a little overwhelming. I’m hit or miss with these things anyway, so from now on I will welcome reader requests. [...]
Silence Reigns: I Appeal To The Heart Of Storytellers Unplugged
(I want to apologize to Richard and everyone. I had to drive to VA to pick up my sons today, and did not post this in the morning…I hope it will get the exposure it deserves … and I hate it when I screw up…(sorry Rick)- DNW
By
Richard Steinberg
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless [...]
Random Notes from a Writing Life
by Jeff Mariotte
It should go without saying—but these days, it seems even the most obvious sentiments need to be expressed or people will assume they’re not felt—that last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech were an abominable act performed by a seriously disturbed person.
What was worrying from a long-range perspective was the amount of attention paid [...]
Dragon Claws?
Dragon Claws?
I have a lot of vivid memories of Hurricane Isabel. Isabel was a Category 2 hurricane when it hit my home town of Hertford, NC in September of 2003. There were trees uprooted, roofs sheared off, and roads cut off completely to traffic. I was caught in the middle of it [...]
