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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WRITE GOOD! Author Desperately Seeking Help With ‘Option Right’ 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 [...]
OPTION RIGHT 1.0: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]