Suggested reading: THOMAS EDISON MEETS HIS BASTARD SON, a short story from the BOOK O’KELLS. Suggested listening: DEARBORN audio short story from the novel NATURE OF THE BEAST from the BOOK OF O’KELLS. [...]
A Con Games Column I feel lucky because I did most of my writing before artificial intelligence (AI) became the Headless Horseman heedless of humankind. Pre-Chatbot, the ink-stained wretch had no choice but to write [...]
A Short Story from the novel GARDENWILD By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2022 All Rights Reserved “I want a Fruity Sheet!” Noah said. We were in the kitchen the next morning and he was [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
#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 [...]
Everybody knows Keyser Soze. He’s the Turkish crime lord from The Usual Suspects, the classic noir directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. McQuarrie went on to write a raft of terrific scripts [...]
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, [...]
