SUPERNOVEL: Tuesday March 25, 1997
With all my mumbo-jumbo about the Supernovel, it’s easy to forget just how hard it is for me to write the plain old novel portion of our story. I’m up to just two hours in [...]
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. [...]
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 ‘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 figure it out. The story [...]
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 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 [...]
Supernovel II: The App Way
January 4, 2021 Focus on the O’Kells App. That’s the key because it forces you into multimedia whether you look it or not. You have to take everything into consideration and everything has to work. [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: When Blogging Was Young
I've been amazed at what Jillian Livingston has accomplished in Aspen with blogging, social media, and connecting the business community. Michael Conniff (left) with Jilliam Livingston and Jerry Bovino on the Bovino Show in [...]