There are a couple of things you can do, as a struggling writer of any level of talent from dire to genius, that will mark you among your colleagues as an asshole. There are actually way more than a couple, but these are the two I am thinking about today. One is declaring that you […]
You’re reading a novel. Great, good, indifferent; in any event, one that provides enough incentive to keep reading. And then you hit the chapter where the author lost track of what he was doing. This is not to be confused with the mere interesting controlled digression, like a red herring character in a murder mystery, […]
Originally published on Facebook. The emptiest goddamned thing you can say about any work of art is, “It’s over-rated.” This is a statement often dropped into a conversation like a turd, sometimes without any elaboration: just those two words, which are modified if at all only with the word “really.” These thoughts are prompted by […]