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Entries Tagged as 'Crossed Wires'

Getting It Out of My System (2)

September 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

(Part 1 of this N-part series was here.)
Let’s see, where were we… Oh. Right. I’d just posted excerpts from the Prologue to Crossed Wires, my 1992 mystery, and Chapter 1 from its never-published sequel, Trapdoor. And I said that the differences between those two excerpts sprang from “something” that happened in the roughly one year [...]

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Tags: Crossed Wires · Looking Backward · Style and Craft · The Online World · Writing

Getting It Out of My System (1)

September 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments

[In a post a few days ago, I started to nose around my "issues" with writing mysteries, thrillers, and the like. This is the perfect time do something I really don't like to do, much -- to lay out the story behind one of my formative experiences as a writer: the publication, in 1992, of [...]

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Tags: Crossed Wires · Looking Backward · Style and Craft · The Online World · Writing