EJ Ruek’s The Grimace and The Giggle

Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth
Watched this a couple of nights ago, and this is a great movie.  5 stars on Netflix from me. Superb.

Also,
Things We Lost in the Fire
was exceptional: excellent story, superior acting all the way around, brilliantly shot with superb lighting.

Here’s an interesting video documentary on YouTube about Rutgers new writing program called Writers House
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpq1yZOrtYA - “Documentary about the launching of Writers House, a learning community that is part of the Rutgers English Department“

I don’t know why, but writers post up their manuscripts, asking other writers for their honest opinions.  But, when other writers give that honest opinion, out comes the angst, the anger, and the tears.  You would think that, by the time a writer has their five million words…or even two million words written, they would [...]

THE NEW TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER: Ah…well…working fine — phenomenally, even.  Hey, it’s a Toshiba, a company whose laptop computers are the very best in my opinion.  However, installing my favorite programs is a bit of a slow process as always, and Word 2007, which came pre-installed, makes me nervous until I try it for awhile.  [...]

FINAL UPDATE TO THIS POST: Have new computer WITH Vista and, you know what?  Vista is pretty darn cool.  XP took 2 weeks to tame, but I’ve about got this configured the way I want it in just a few hours.  So far so good.
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UPDATE: I’m still checking email about twice a day.  [...]

WELL, IT’S TRUE.  I fell out of bed, and I’ve been beating myself up over it.  The dark contemporary I had in the process of finalizing kicked me out, none too gently, the door viciously slammed in my face and then locked.  I tried begging my way back in.  I tried burrowing through the cracks.  I even [...]

What gives?  Yesterday, over on Publisher’s Lunch, http://www.publisherslunch.com/, I read this startling news, then, opening up the NYTimes today, I read it again. 
This woman, Margaret B. Jones (actually Margaret “Peggy” Seltzer), claimed that some entire work of fiction was her true life memoir.  Now, this is the second time (…Or is it the third?) that this sort [...]

I have to say, right off, this is a RANT.  About USPS.  About mail carriers and mail clerks and new rules and all the changes that have happened to what used to be a tidy, pleasant service one never had to think twice about using.
I’ve postponed posting this rant, giving myself time to “cool down.”  [...]

At the last meeting of a local writer’s group, a question came up concerning a young woman’s manuscript — a hysterical… (Er, sorry about that totally non-Freudian slip.)  …historical romance that’s been going the rounds off and on for several months now because there’s a publisher “interested”…supposedly.  Several people  (Not me.  I stayed out of it, just listening, until [...]

Well, having spent a great deal of time and effort writing what I and my beta readers consider a really riveting novel, I’m now researching agents…since it has been quite a few years since I had the honor of pursuing representation.  Let me tell you, things have changed.  A lot.  So, first order of the [...]