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, [...]
THE SUPERNOVEL by Michael Conniff August 25, 2019 Worth remembering: I have actually written what I call the Supernovel because THE GOOD EGG, originally known as CHILDREN OF THE O’KELLS, and written entirely on Facebook, [...]
CON GAMES: Code Friedman Huffington Post: May 25, 2011 Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen — and why [...]
By Michael Conniff I pride myself on never coming within a whisper of writer’s block but today I have no idea what to say—because today is my 40th anniversary of writing fiction. The point [...]
