If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in chapter one, someone had better use it by the end of the story. So said Russian physician and dramatist, Anton Chekhov, in the late nineteenth century. Considered one of history’s greatest writers of short fiction, Chekhov stated that every element in a narrative must be necessary, and anything that… Continue Reading
Category Archives: For Readers
You Can’t Go Home Again …
… says Thomas Wolfe, but you can sure as hell drive by, thanks to the Google car and Street View. I’m sure most of you already know of this stupefying technology. You enter an address into Google Maps, and a street-level image of the address accompanies the map. But the amazing thing is, you can then continue on, either up… Continue Reading
What’s In The Box!!!?
moviescreenshots.blogspot.com Are you a fan of the movie Se7en? Do you remember how it ends? With Brad Pitt pleading with Morgan Freeman to tell him what’s in the box as he holds a gun to John Doe’s (Kevin Spacey’s) head out in the desert? If you haven’t seen it, and you like deranged serial killers, you should watch… Continue Reading
Call 911 Or You Will Die!
Back in the ’90s, if you were a man drinking in a hotel bar or gambling at the tables of Vegas, and you allowed yourself to be led upstairs by a seductive woman, this is the message you might have found scrawled in lipstick across the mirror (or on your chest) as you awakened… Continue Reading
I Want My MTV!
If you are close to my age, there’s a good chance that between 1981 and 1992 all you wanted was your MTV. If so, you will find I Want My MTV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum to be informative, eye opening and entertaining. What did I like about the… Continue Reading
Book Reviews Coming Soon
They say that if you want to be a writer, you have to read a lot and write a lot. That makes sense. Readers want to read compelling stories populated with interesting characters. Writers must write compelling stories filled with interesting characters if they want their work to be noticed. So, writers can learn a lot from what they read. Even though I write fiction,… Continue Reading