by Guest Author | Apr 10, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
I sneered when I was first asked to be part of a panel on “Beating Writers’ Block” for last summer’s Thrillerfest, the annual New York-based conference of International Thrillers Writers. “Who has the luxury of Writers’ Block?” I fumed. “Try a deadline, that’ll cure...
by Guest Author | Aug 22, 2017 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
I’ve noticed this magic that happens in the writing community. (It might not actually be magic, but in my world, there is a lot of magic. For instance, radio, television, Internet, telephones. How do they work? If you tried to explain it to me, you wouldn’t be the...
by Guest Author | Jun 20, 2017 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Earlier this evening my son and I were in the kitchen singing along with the Disturbed cover of “Sound of Silence.” A huge swelling outcry against the inability to connect with the world around you, that descending, inevitable trailing into loneliness. I looked up...
by Guest Author | May 30, 2017 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Magical Realism manifests as extraordinary events beside the real: sometimes we call it magical realism, sometimes speculative, sometimes slipstream, and sometimes fabulist. A rose by any other name, right? Whatever we call it, that innovative fiction is a fiction of...
by Guest Author | Apr 11, 2017 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Writing with a Mission by Frank Daidone A mission defines the “why” we do what we do while at the same time instills a passion into our efforts. In the early stages of writing I didn’t have a definable mission driving my words and as a result I found...
