What Should You Do Today?
Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00
William V. Burns
What should you do today? - Place Chekov's gun on the mantelpiece.
- Walk into a hard-boiled detective's office.
- Explain to a youth that they must go on a quest into a terrible land to fulfill a prophecy.
- Create something new and terrible in your shuttered laboratory and give birth to an evil laugh.
- Be the man who knows what he should not.
- Move to a new school and wonder if you will ever make a friend.
- Sign on to a ship's crew.
- Step out of the stagecoach, and tell the boy, "I'm the new sheriff."
- Enter the drawing room, gather the suspects around you, and announce you have determined the murderer's identity.
- Walk the ancient, hallowed halls and wonder if you will ever be a knight.
Sit on the stoop and tell the child on your knee, "Once upon a time..." 
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 July 2010 09:10 )
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Spring and Chaos - A Movie about Miyazawa Kenji
Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00
William V. Burns
Miyazawa Kenji was a poet of the Showa Era in Japan.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:39 )
What Wonders Can You Make?
Monday, 05 July 2010 20:31
William V. Burns
What can you make today? What particle of your imagination can you share? What idea, mysterious and fresh can you dredge from the caverns of mind? What can you write, and disseminate among us? What will we think of it, and you? It's the attraction and the fear that writing entails. Sit. Write. Share.
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 July 2010 08:57 )
The Partnership
Tuesday, 01 June 2010 00:00
William V. Burns
"I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel." -- John le Carré There is an implied bond between a writer and their reader. The writer offers up a story, whether a short anecdote or a series of novels, and the reader decides whether to partake.
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 July 2010 08:57 )
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The Rain
Thursday, 01 April 2010 00:00
William V. Burns
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." -- William Wordsworth Our featured short story: Bear Hang by Brian Albright. This gray-limned story of an unfortunate canoe trip is our March Writing Contest: Horror in the Rain winner. About Writing: How does an author create a Timeless work of fiction? Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could write a real stinker of a story. Read about it here. April Writing Contest: Space!Can you write about the wonder, the beauty, or the isolation of the stars? -- William V. Burns
Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 June 2010 02:28 )
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