Author Archive: tyunglebower

Carrot, No Stick.

I’ve mentioned a few times that this year has been sluggish for me in the short fiction writing department. My major projects, (the novel of any given moment, and once in a while a play script) have proceeded on schedule for the most part, but the shorter, smaller things had been too few and too …

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In the Hole or Under the Waterfall?

In baseball, being “on deck” refers to the very next batter, after the current batter is no longer batting. There is a more unofficial term for the player that’s two batters away from action. They are sometimes referred to as being “in the hole.” And the one coming up after that player? Though literature is scarce …

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Tinkering.

Sometimes you have to. Every few weeks I have been doing so with my original one-man stage show, The King is But a Man.  I sadly haven’t found many chances to perform it beyond its 2015 debut. Plus, with my changing schedule and other projects, I’ve not has as much time to rehearse it in private …

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Writing and the Olympics

The Rio Games are underway. I wonder which sport is most like writing? There are word sprints, of course, which many people find quite useful to their process. I’ve never been much good at them, but their popularity cannot be denied. So for those people at those times, writing could be said to be like …

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How Do You Solve a Project Like Novella?

I’ve only mentioned it once here on that blog, and that was back in October. But I have what I’ve been calling a novella ready for its next draft. I did some red-inking on it earlier this summer, and I need to type out those changes, so I’m not sure what the word count of …

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