Just as UFO’s seem to only show themselves in rural areas instead of those with a more dense, and perhaps more intellectual population, so goes The First Phone Call from Heaven, when phones begin to ring in Coldwater, Michigan, population not a whole lot. On one particular Friday, a day of the week considered rather…
Every Wednesday Romero Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt challenging writers to create a 100-word story, poem, or whatever works for you. After posting your work on your blog, go back to her site and add your link on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. Give it a shot. I prefer to stick to 100 words, but she doesn’t mind…
Write what you know, write what you love. We’ve all heard this before, and we usually practice it. Usually. Doesn’t matter what it is or when, as long as you enjoy your time at the keyboard. Right? Usually. Back in April or May of 2012, I was visiting a friend’s blog and saw a picture…
Reblogged from a ways back – for obvious reasons. _________________________________ Two of the most controversial and never-endingly (?) discussed items in the last 50 years can each be summed up with three letters. UFO and JFK. Stephen King has written about many things, and although I haven’t read anything he may have written about UFO’s,…
In a continuing series on my writing views and experiences, I ask what it means to be “published.” _______________________________________ On more than one occasion I’ve been involved with discussions about publishing, more specifically, debates about what it takes to be a “published author”? I’ll give you my thoughts, and then you have three options: 1.…
The Tree of Life, nominated for Best Picture, Director, and Cinematography Oscars and winner of AFI’s Best Picture of 2011, is one of those films that few can attempt and even fewer can accomplish. It is also one of those films, at least one a year, that Academy voters and Cannes adore but most of…
Last name, maybe – Manson? What starts out like a peaceful, Quaker farmhouse somewhere out in nowhere turns out to be a quiet, isolated cult of about 20 men and women. The men eat dinner first, then the women – but significantly less food is available. Sex is part of the initiation, sometimes in a…
Fade in to a grainy, overexposed, black and white shot of a glistening sunrise reflecting off a river and into the camera. Slowly, both focus and color are added, enough that we see the river is rather muddy. On a bridge over the river is Tim (Joshua Miller), a 10-year old boy with disheveled hair…
There are certain movies and books that present very different experiences to their audiences depending on where those viewers and readers are in their lives. Older audiences probably don’t appreciate the superhero genre in the same way as those 30 and under, and you can reverse that for most anything starring Meryl Streep or written…
Every Wednesday Rockingham Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt challenging writers to create a 100-word story, poem, or whatever works for you. After posting your work on your blog, go back to her site and add your link on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. Give it a shot. I prefer to stick to 100 words, but she doesn’t mind…
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