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 [...]
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 [...]
HAPPY ENDINGS: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
HAPPY ENDINGS A Short Story By Michael Conniff She kissed him on the mouth so hard it hurt. She had never kissed him that way before: her mouth had never been a weapon that [...]
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 [...]