Archive for November, 2007
The Embarass - Do You Remember?
— A memory - first published in a very limited circulation book titled “Personal Demons” I found this doing some file cleanup, read it, and got lost in the memory all over again. Hope my buddy Randy forgives me…hope you find it of interest.
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Let me introduce myself - briefly…
Yes, this is Alma Alexander. Yes, I’ve just joined the Storytellersunplugged team. Yes, the 30th of the month is MY day, from here on, and I will presenting myself with a new blog post at that time every month.
Due to a VERY pressing editorial deadline I have begged to start my official tenure on the [...]
The Wicked Witch: On Writing
Hi everyone. It’s great to be here, but as I’m suffering a little from stage fright, I’ve decided to hide behind a couple of my characters on this, my first post.
Enjoy!
She pursed arterial red lips and tapped the cleft below her nose gently with an onyx index nail.
“Characterization is a chameleon act in the world [...]
Of Scullery Boys and Kings
Once upon a time, there was a scullery boy.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about genre conventions and what they do to stories.
A genre convention is something, a certain type of character or a particular development of plot, that can be depended upon to show up in stories that share a genre. Loner [...]
ALTER EGOS
Wayne Allen Sallee
November 28th 2007
I’ve been giving a lot of interviews lately, though none really touch on anything I am promoting. Upagianstthewall (on Phil Nutman’s website), and Doorways magazine. Dark Scribe ran an interview, but it was mostly about my witnessing John Wayne Gacy’s execution and my correspondence with him [...]
Tonight, I Am Frankenstein
Tonight, I am Frankenstein.
Not the monster, the doctor, Victor or Frederick depending on your context and your tolerance for that sort of thing. I am bolting together slabs of prose from different drafts, different versions, different takes on a novel. I am ripping great hunks of unnecessary verbiage out and consigning them to the offal [...]
Perchance to Scream
A combination of physical difficulties and crazed deadlines have forced me to decide to forego writing a regular blog post, so instead, here’s a fun story I wrote to rid myself of a recurring dream.–Janet Berliner
She is fifteen when the dreams invade her nights.
By the time she is not-quite forty, the dreams are [...]
Why We Strike
Sorry for the late post (and my first, too!). You’d have to be an idiot to travel on Thanksgiving weekend, right? Well, present and belatedly accounted for.
I suppose that being the newest member of Storytellers Unplugged I should take this opportunity to introduce myself. But, well, *@#% that. [...]
Writer Beware
In the summer of 1995 I decided to get serious about something that had, up until that point, been not much more than an occasional hobby, one I took up every now and then to amuse my friends and myself. Every now and then I would write a short story, realize that I was probably [...]
For These, My Thanks
By Richard Steinberg
This month’s column is dedicated to the sacrifices of Capt. Benjamin D. Tiffner, 31, of West Virginia; 5th Special Forces Group and Staff Sgt. Patrick F. Kutschbach, 25, of Pennsylvania; 10th Special Forces Group.
Thank you guys, stand easy.
“I’ve been struggling with this toast for several weeks. Should I strike a melancholy, time passes [...]
