CON GAMES: O Canada, Of Thee We Sing
Why can't we be more like Canada? They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them [...]
Help Michael Conniff Crowdsource GREAT AMERICAN HERO Short Story
Okay, so I admit it. No way I'm supposed to have so much fun when so many people in the crowd help me to take my stories to a better place. No one was more [...]
THE GREAT AMERICAN HERO: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
COPYRIGHT © 2021 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED War breaks out when she comes home. ONE She took the first seat in the last car on the train. She was going home though home [...]
How To Crowdsource A Short Story: OPTION RIGHT by Michael Conniff
I don’t know what took me so long to get wise to crowdsourcing my stories. Maybe it was my old-school notion that writing a story actually required an individual person to do the work. (How [...]
WEE: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story by Michael Conniff
WEE By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved “Stop!” she said. She had never said that word to Scotty since they met at her brother’s wedding. He had been marvelous, miraculously clever on [...]
CON GAMES: Getting Facebooked
A Con Games blast from the past: The virtual world can get a little too real some days, and one of those days came last week when a couple I know--one-half of the couple to [...]
SUPERNOVEL: Hollywood and Synthetic Characters
March 13, 1998 More on Hollywood and technology. Richard Edlund of Boss Films created all the special effects on “Star Wars.” That makes him something of an authority on all the changes happening in Hollywood, [...]
WRITE GOOD! How To Crowdsource A Short Story: OPTION RIGHT
By Michael Conniff I don’t know what took me so long to get wise to crowdsourcing my stories. Maybe it was my old-school notion that writing a story actually required an individual person to do [...]
OPTION RIGHT 2.O: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story By Michael Conniff
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning playing football at Kent Abbey was supposed to be a higher calling for someone with my O’Kell pedigree. My odious half-brother Tom lettered three times [...]
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. [...]