Villain as Hero
Because of a huge backlash by consumers and politicians against horror and crime comics, the four-color publishers got together in 1953...
Kids' Stuff
"You have to write the book that wants to be written," stated Madeleine L'Engle. "And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups,...
The Past is What You Make of It
If you read the post What I Don't Know Could Fill a Book, you probably inferred that I'm partial to stories set in the past, and you...
Building a House of Words
When I taught English to middle schoolers, every unit (or quarter) involved several writing pieces, usually essays but also a couple of...
What I Don't Know Could Fill a Book
Wasn't there a mention in one of my earlier posts about my plan to write a story featuring Sherlock Holmes' alter ego Altamont? There was...
The Game's a Really Big Shoe
When I was a youth, I was much enamored of mystery tales. I devoured novels and stories of cops and detectives (professional and amateur)...
The Emu Girl
The latest article prompt I chose to fulfill involved creating a story about a photograph. THE OKLAHOMA CITY GAZETTE Tues., June 24,...
A Penny a Word
I like pulp fiction. Not the movie--though I like that, too--but rather the prose tales, printed on pulpwood paper, that were so popular...
