Author Archive: tyunglebower

Nanowrimo 2014

It’s almost that time again. In little over a month, Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) will be in full swing again. I will once again take part. Sort of. I decided last week I was going to be what they call a Nano rebel. I will not write a novel this November. Rather, I will …

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My Comments Featured on Writers Website

This may be a bit of a cheat in regards to a blog post, but since it happened today and I wanted to share it with my blog readers and others, I will point it out here. Some of my comments about my Nanowrimo 2013 experience appeared on the Writer’s Digest website. A few months …

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An Open Letter About Fake Letters

For the purposes of this open letter, the group of people I am addressing will be referred to as the Bygone Ladies… Dear Bygone Ladies, It was a silly, childish prank, and I apologize to all of you. True, it wasn’t destructive or threatening, but uncalled for nonetheless. You probably don’t remember me doing it, …

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Fall in Love with Ideas

As a writer, (as well as an actor), I need to fall in love with ideas. Not just whole, realized ideas, mind you. But fragments, snippets, questions, warped perceptions of previous ideas. Just about all of them. It’s true that any creative idea could spark something that becomes a full fledged project, and that’s great. …

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Repost: My 9/11 Story

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I wrote a detailed account, for the first time, of my own experience of that day. Since then, I have reposted that account on the anniversary, and allowed it to stand as my definitive response to those events. I try not to begrudge anybody of their personal methods of …

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