Category Archives: Writing
I Don’t Rely on an Unreliable Narrator
I don’t know about this “unreliable narrator” thing. It’s not illegitimate. This is a matter of my tastes as a writer and reader. I’m not so set in my ways that I’ll declare my tastes will never change. That being said, so far in my writing and reading life, my tastes run quite counter to the unreliable …
Remember the Elbows.
This time of year brings with it my annual reading of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Almost everyone knows the story even if they haven’t read the actual text. Yet when you read the actual text, you discover certain things about the novella that simply aren’t present in most movie and stage productions. One of the biggest …
Looking Back on the Open Letter Continuum
The year is coming to an end, and with it, the regular appearance of the Open Letter Continuum. It has been an interesting, sometimes, difficult, sometimes rewarding and all times useful exercise in revisiting and releasing. Some of the letters I addressed to those I think about fondly still. Others are addressed to those I’d …
Nanowrimo 2014 Summary
I won Nanowrimo for the fifth time this year. For the fifth time, I was able to compose 50,000 words of fiction within 30 days. Only as I’ve mentioned before, I opted to be a Nano rebel this year. I didn’t write a novel. I wrote short stories. I wanted to see how the experience …
The Story of Thanksgiving…and of Other Stuff
When confronted with the scholarship that Paul Revere probably did not make as long or as effective a ride as believed through New England to warn colonists of the approaching British forces, President Warren G. Harding supposedly said, “I love Paul Revere, whether he rode or not.” So ingrained is the story of Paul Revere’s ride …
Ty Unglebower 