Monthly Archives: November 2008

NCIS was very good last night, with the Mission Impossible-esque caper and the flashback that showed why Ducky was as taken aback as he was by the discovery of the frozen body. The twist behind the mole’s motivation was a … Continue reading →

I did a full editing pass on the short story I mentioned recently where an editor asked me to tackle the ending from a different perspective. Of course, I couldn’t resist the chance to groom the prose in the rest … Continue reading →

People familiar with cribbage know that there are a couple of “magic” numbers in that game. 29, for example, is the highest score you can get in a hand. And then there’s 19, which is the only score between 0 … Continue reading →

My new essay, The Doldrums, is up Storytellers Unplugged. In it I look at my recent listlessness about writing and how I’m getting back on track.

Originally published at Bev Vincent. You can comment here or there. My new essay, The Doldrums, is up Storytellers Unplugged. In it I look at my recent listlessness about writing and how I’m getting back on track.

We watched 88 Minutes this weekend, a movie that was, oddly enough, 108 minutes long. I thought they might try to do a 24 with it, but that wasn’t the case. In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s a … Continue reading →

I received a royalty check last night for my essay “For Love or Money: Six Marketing Myths,” which is in the HWA collection On Writing Horror. One of the bits of advice I give in that essay is to avoid … Continue reading →

Interesting developments on Eli Stone last night—the fall out of the grand schism. I hope Maggie’s defection doesn’t mean we won’t be seeing as much of her on the show, as she’s one of the program’s brightest spots. I liked … Continue reading →

The Mentalist went a little too far in a direction I advocated a week or two ago. The show was very much about the main character’s skills, but I didn’t care a whit about the actual case under investigation. I … Continue reading →

Ninety years ago today, World War I came to an end at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Back in Canada, it’s Remembrance Day (and it will probably rain in Ottawa for the ceremonies at … Continue reading →