CON GAMES: The Good Guy Gap In Movies, TV
EAST HAMPTON, NY—Sayonara. Out of here. Later for you, Dude. Put a fork in it, folks: the Good Guy in film and television is nowhere to be found in most media markets global and domestic. [...]
ATOMIC TOM: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
ATOMIC TOM By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST The world knows Atomic Tom O’Kell was a hellish [...]
WRITE GOOD! AUTHOR DESPERATELY SEEKING HELP WITH SHORT STORY
Hello, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood writer, and I have a problem with a short story I just wrote. I don’t know what’s missing and I need your help to figure it out. The story [...]
OPTION RIGHT: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning I was supposed to play football at Kent Abbey. Nobody in my family ever said anything about it—not even my odious half-brother Tom. He lettered three [...]
WRITE GOOD! The Title Above The Name
The right title makes all the difference—and a bad title can leave a work dead on arrival. Not only do titles (and headlines) matter, but they exist for one reason only: to make you want [...]
THE SUPERNOVEL: Annotation Can Be Fun
The novel as a form will never die but will evolve as it always has, begging, borrowing, and stealing from the best. Tuesday September 10, 1996 The world opened up to me this week when [...]
Rule #1: Break The Rules of Writing
#1 Break The Rules Know the rule you are breaking. Rule #1 is a shot across the bow of those who would say you can’t do that: of course you can as long as you [...]
CON GAMES: Saints Be Praised
CON GAMES: SAINTS BE PRAISED By Michael Conniff Copyright (C) 2020 All Rights Reserved Time to break my favorite rules for writing fiction: never complain, never explain. This is the exception to those rules. [...]
Warming Up To A Novel Called CLIMATA
If you are a novelist, or a writer of any kind of fiction, ideas can arrive without making a sound—if you only have ears (or hearing aids) to hear. Take my new Young Adult novel, [...]
CLIMATA: A Novel Excerpt by Michael Conniff
CLIMATA Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved First Chapter By Michael Conniff Madagascar The first time she walked on water they called her a saint. The second time they called her God—had she been [...]