Czech, please
It was a little cooler than normal on Saturday morning, with a breeze, so once I got going on mowing the front lawn I let momentum carry me over to the back, which has been much neglected this summer. It’s completely fenced in, so no one but us can really see it, and the grass [...]
What’s in a Name?
So, Russell got the boot on Big Brother. No big surprise there. Natalie had the temerity to announce that the three people who got to vote would be voting for her, so Julie Chen decided to give her a jolt by saying her name first when the eviction was announced. However, it was Russell who got [...]
Denouement
I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson last night. The novel has absolutely no denouement. No tying up of loose ends or ruminating over the meaning of events. Climax, boom, the end. Of course, Larrson has the luxury of a third novel in the series to take care of all that [...]
Big Brother: Cancelled!
Two els in that word to denote the British spelling, since it is the British series I’m talking about. The original has apparently run its course and come to a natural end and won’t be renewed. I’ve never seen any episodes of the UK version of the show.
The American version is winding down. Looks like [...]
The Root Element is Missing
I started working on an old short story that I plan to completely revamp. I’ve had some encouraging rejection letters with good, constructive criticism to guide me. I also came across some news items recently that I planned to weave into the story. It’s only a 2000-word story (the first version was exactly 1000 words [...]
Oh, no!
One of the delights of writing a really short short story is the fact that you can edit and revise it many times in a single sitting. I finished a 2300-word story on Friday and spent the weekend going over and over and over it, honing and taming it a bit at a time. Just [...]
Isn’t It Romantic?
Since it’s already been brought to my attention that I write like a girl, why shouldn’t I publish a romance story? I’d like to say that my upcoming appearance in New Love Stories magazine is a response to that previous editor’s gender-based diatribe, but it isn’t. The short story has been with the editors for well over a [...]
Accidental writing
I’m reading The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson. The book focuses much more on Elizabeth Salander than on Mikael. I’m about 1/4 of the way into it, and I don’t like it nearly as much as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It could have done with much stronger editing. Do we [...]
Tin Years
I didn’t plan to start writing the new short story this morning. In fact, I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to. However, when I went to bed last night I had a vision of the opening scene that was unlike what I’d originally planned for the story, and much better. I discovered the characters, [...]
Spring Cleaning
I had one of those interesting phone calls yesterday afternoon, the kind that I can’t talk about and won’t be able to talk about for months. It was about an interesting project unlike anything else I’ve ever been a part of, and I won’t be able to reveal anything about it until it is complete. [...]
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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.
