The last scene of “War Springs Eternal,” was a dream and in the dream, the main character was Ernest Hemingway.{I had been reading a biography.} The dream was so vivid, that when I woke, I grabbed my cellphone, opened my memo app, hit the microphone icon and immediately dictated the details of the dream. I […]
via Ernest Hemingway Claims The World Breaks Everyone — Short Story Scribe
Check out John Greco’s list of his favorite movies set in New England. These are some excellent flicks. I haven’t seen all, but the ones I haven’t seen, I have heard good things about and the ones I have seen are dynamite. John has primo taste in movies.
via Horror!
Check out this excellent, wonderful article above on A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror as well on my website and my life! Thank you Charly Priest!. I will be reading your works very soon and I encourage everyone else to do so as well.
I’ve had questions from several writers recently about how to approach a first chapter. New writers hear so many rules about what they must do in the first line, first paragraph, and first chapter that they can feel paralyzed, afraid to write a word. Let’s hope that NaNoWriMo is helping some of you fight that […]
The link below is to an article reporting on the winner of the 2019 German Book Prize, Bosnian-German author Saša Stanišić for ‘Origins.’ For more visit:https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/10/sasa-stanisic-wins-2019-german-book-prize/
It’s been two years since I last published a Guest Post, for no any other reason than that the idea slipped off the radar as other busy-ness took over. However, during a recent email correspondence with (relatively new) blogger Bill, the idea re-popped into my head, and so I asked him, as he explains below. […]
Many have been told and honestly believe that writing a certain number of words each day is the surest way to becoming a successful writer. Even though I don’t deny it, sometimes I feel it’s a bit more complicated than that.
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” – J.D. Salinger I have always considered these […]
This week Bill (of The Australian Legend) is running an Australian Women Writers Gen 1 Week, through which he plans to highlight Australian women writers from our first generation of writers, which he defines as “those writers who came before the 1890s and the Sydney Bulletin ‘Bush Realism’ school, although many of them continued writing […]
via Monday musings on Australian literature: Tasma (aka Jessie Couvreur) — Whispering Gums
Stark naked? Not quite… Shutterstock Simon Horobin, University of Oxford Many people think they know their main language intimately. But there are many words and phrases in English that people often use wrongly. Whether these erroneous uses truly count as “wrong” is up for debate – after all, a mistake that has become widely adopted […]
via Five common words we’re all using incorrectly — At the BookShelf
What the fuck? Last thing I remember was watching a strange, disc-shaped craft slowing to a hover over my back yard… A hot soccer mom tour guide gestures to me while addressing a crowd of her peers: “And so you can see, my fellow soccer moms, that we keep Kent Wayne, Man Whore Extraordinaire, inside […]
via Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel — Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha
there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
via Rainer Maria Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo — Vox Populi
Keith Garrett PORFINIFIGUS Where he comes from nobody knows, he does live, A myth, a fable, only a child believes, one who has seen. Along the riverbank of a small Eastern town in Maine, A place of play for a boy named Luke, this is no dream. Many fantastic tales he does tell, who will […]
Poems by Asoke Kumar Mitra This Night My heart longs to join Into your song Today the autumn has come At my window Shall forgive you for the wounds Silent worship at the temple of midnight Strange light of the sky In your eyes Silent salutations My heart wanders In the restless wind I […]
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 