writing, fiction

Writing 4.0 – “So, what do you write?”

Have you been asked that question?  “So, what do you write?”   It’s not good enough to simply reply with, “Stories.”  To ask what one writes is a perfectly legitimate question.  However, while it shows one’s interest in me as a writer, I have always feared this question because I never had what I believed was…

Silver Linings Playbook

Too many films are set in Philadelphia and Boston, usually for the wrong reason.  Both cities have passion and character, but they also have fairly noticeable speech patterns.  I suspect some actors want to play characters from those cities only to make the audience say, “Wow, what a great (Boston or Philadelphia) accent!”  After about…