Author Archive: tyunglebower
Playing My Cards Write
Another dumb pun for a title. But relevant. For though I would not be so dramatic as to consider this an announcement, I am making a statement as to one of my projects for the year. Going back to my earlier roots or writing short story collections, usually of 10 or 15 stories, with a …
Crop Rotation in 2024
Though it be a bit late in the month for New Year’s sentiments, this is nonetheless my first post of the New Year. Plans flucuate through the course of a year, but I can say with certainly that there will be no new novel this year. After a long, intense time spent with The Rubble …
Writing the Ship in the New Year
Happy (soon) New Year. Not so happy pun, but it is what it is. As 2023 comes to a close, my mind for at least a few minutes, enters into the same thought process as most do at this time of year; what do I want the New Year to bring? Plenty. But for the …
Yes, Virginia, It Is Worth It. Usually.
For several years around this festive time of year, I reposted a thought piece of mine on “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus,” the famous New York Sun editorial from the late 1800s. I considered it, and still do, one of the greatest opinion pieces ever written in English. I stand by the claim. …
Midwinter Night’s Read
I think of literature and books around Christmas time. Despite lacking the reading speed to be a voracious reader as they say, I nonetheless associate the holiday season with both giving and getting books. (and hence shopping for them.) Iceland has a deeply held tradition of jolabockaflod, or book flood, wherein books are given on …
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