Short, short fiction
Thursday, October 26th, 2006So, Wired Magazine invited authors to write some short, short stories. How short?
Six words.
So, can you do it?
Here are my attempts:
Archive for October, 2006
“I don’t have anything to write about.”
Thursday, October 26th, 2006No? Really? In today’s newspaper I read about the following:
Earlier this week a small rocket carried two US satellites into space.
Memphis is abuzz over a confused manatee, discovered there after swimming 700 miles up the Mississippi. Rescue efforts are underway (the cold water could cause its digestive system to shut down).
A Los Alamos worker is […]
So this was waiting right outside the house when I woke this morning. It’s the kind of thing you really don’t see that often, except in photos taken by other people.
The spider in this web was about as ugly as this web isn’t. This was no graceful, long-limbed creatue. It was a squat, thick-bodied, hairy […]
On Copywriting
Monday, October 9th, 2006Here are some thoughts that I think go into the making of good copy.
1. People don’t make rational decisions. They make emotional decisions and rationalize them.
2. There are no magic formulas. (See the top right corner of the website.)
3. The art of copywriting isn’t in the writing. It’s the art of persuasion.
4. You can’t make […]
To make things easier…
Monday, October 2nd, 2006My portfolio
My resume
The Word on the Street
