Taxing weekend
Well, the taxes are done and ready to eFile. Hallelujah. I’ve decided to wait until the DSL is hooked up, which will be either today or tomorrow, before I send them off. I like to live on the edge. Risk our valuable assets to a brand new, untested (by us) technology. For all I know [...]
Who? Why?
Alas, tragedy struck. My wife was driving to the mall yesterday and passed a pile of feathers on the side of the road where we saw the owl the previous evening. She turned around and went back to double check and it was, indeed, the poor creature. I see lots of road kill around here, [...]
Who?
My wife and I were out for a walk last night after dark. I saw something move among the branches in the distance, which I at first took to be one of our omnipresent squirrels frolicking among the pines. (The squirrels around here are only slightly smaller than dachshunds.) As we got closer, I could [...]
Life in the fast lane
Go, Canada!
The women’s hockey team is currently leading Sweden 4-1 for the gold medal. Tradition says it should be the U.S. they are facing—that’s the way it’s always been, so long as women’s hockey has been an Olympic sport—but the Swedes won the shoot-out last week. Hmmmm. Shoot-out. No wonder people think hockey is a [...]
Unplugged
As I write this, I’m listening to Stephen King on VoA, handling listener calls. He’s calling the Washington headquarters from Florida, but not, he stressed, via cell phone. An interesting assortment of callers from all across the world. Both the moderator and King are doing a good job of handling their eccentricities!
The Stoker recommendation process [...]
Shooting people
I wrote a new short story this morning. Complete, beginning to end. Okay, so maybe it qualifies as a flash piece because it’s just under 1000 words, but where yesterday there was nothing, not even a title, today there’s a story. How does that happen?
Damned if I know. This is another contest submission for the [...]
Great plans
I thought I’d get a lot of writing/editing done on Saturday after spending a little time on taxes. Turns out that I pretty much spent the whole day working on taxes. By the time I was finished, I had no energy or enthusiasm left to be creative, so I watched some taped TV shows from [...]
Twas a dark and stormy Friday
Strange freakin’ winter. I’ve had to wear a light jacket a couple of times this week, but that’s about it. Today it’s nearly 70° again, and raining. Which isn’t a bad thing, because we’ve been suffering a bit of a drought these past few months. This is a good rain—light and steady. Normally when it [...]
Code Black
Okay, so Grey’s Anatomy has this prime real estate, airing right after the football game last night. How do they exploit this to help increase their already-impressive numbers? Start out with a fantasy one-, two-, three-, no, four-some in the opening shot!
After that little moment of creative television (go George!) the episode settled down into [...]
Friday ramblings
My agent read the first 37 chapters (280 pages) of Missing Persons yesterday, concentrating on the recent changes, and it’s thumbs up, full speed ahead, let’s get this thing wrapped up.
When I started this round of revisions, I foolishly turned off the Track Changes feature in Word, because sometimes I find it inhibiting to see [...]
About
Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
