Category Archives: Writing
A New Writers Group
Starting in March I will be heading up a small writers group which will meet in the theatre where I do most of my acting: The Black Box Arts Center. I don’t know how much interest it will generate yet, but I’m aiming for at least four regular attendees for this monthly meeting. I’ve been …
The “True” Responsibility of Authors?
Topics for blog posts and message boards across the internet on any given subject tend to come in waves, I find. One question, or problem or controversy comes to the top, and you find every other blogger posting their thoughts on it. It’s not always intentional. Any given frame of time withing the writers community …
Fiction War.
A few hours ago, the deadline for a 72-hour flash fiction contest arrived. (fictionwar.com) I actually submitted my piece for the contest last night. All contestants were given the same prompt, and had three days to write a story based on same of 1,000 words or less. Mine clocked in at about 800 words. I …
Bob Dylan Should Not Have the Nobel Prize.
Translated into English, the will of Alfred Nobel, founder of the annual prizes that bear his name describes the literature prize as being: “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” There is some debate as to what exactly “ideal” refers to, with some indications that it has been mistranslated. …
Ty Unglebower 