Category story
Tuesday – Anything Possible – Short Story
I found this helmet while walking on the beach last week. Like most things, it prompted a story. Look You There by John W. Howell © 2015 “Hey you there.” “What do you want?” “You know hanging off that structure is dangerous?” “Yeah, but you ought to see the view from up here.’ “Look you […]
Literary Holiday is as Literary Holiday Does
I was again surfing the net (sigh) looking for Fiction Favorites material and stumbled on to the following blog written by the staff writers at http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog. I thought the blog was the kind of thing that needs to be republished since it was originally put up in July 2010. You can click on the various holidays […]
List is as List Does
As you can see I love lists. I stumbled across the Modern Library’s governing board’s list of the greatest books of the twentieth century. The board members were: Christopher Cerf, Gore Vidal, Daniel J. Boorstin, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, A.S. Byatt, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and William Styron. This list was […]
Prompt is as Prompt Does
Nostrovia is a fine blog on poetry. Here is the link: http://wp.me/s2SbOP-357 . Please feel free to visit; you will like it. It is also a place where great ideas pop up. This week the idea is a writing prompt around the following: “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those […]
Grumpy is as Grumpy Does
More research activity turned up an interesting article at Mental_Floss written by Stacy Conradt titled; 11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books. I thought it interesting since there are listed some pretty good movies and some surprising reasons why the authors of the original story hated them. Here is a recap of […]
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