Author Archive: tyunglebower
Keys to an Introvert’s Ideal Social Activity
Later this week I will be auditioning for a play, as I have done many times over the years. (Please visit my other blog in a few days to find out how it went.) Based on who is directing and others who are trying out, I suspect that if I get a part, it will …
The BS of Seven Basic Plots
It is a maxim of the writing world these days; there are only seven stories the world over, forever and ever amen. Therefore anything you write will in essence be a rehash of one of these seven stories. Sorry, no hope to be original. Your only chance is to rehash better than others have rehashed. …
The Real Reason I Write.
I would provide the link if I could remember it, but I didn’t bookmark it at the time. However I can tell you it was an interview with a highly successful (financially) author of best selling novels. Suspense is their genre, I believe. And one quotation from this author had me a bit annoyed. Since …
They Chose Stories.
One of the attendees of the two-hour theatre workshop I presented on Friday suggested I name the evening, “Story Hour with Unglebower.” While I was not there merely to tell stories, the jocular comment nonetheless was appropriate to some degree, as I did share many stories both from my own experience and that of my theatre friends. …
My Certain Shyness.
People who have known me a while but don’t know me deeply are often surprised if not shocked when they find out that I don’t mind public speaking, or performing on stage in most cases. They see the quiet, supposedly aloof guy who doesn’t like to engage people at parties, nor shove his business card …
Ty Unglebower 