SNYDERMANIA

“Dave Cruz (1979)” by W.Z Snyder © 2006 William Snyder It is 1979. I am nineteen and I am dating Cathy MacMurphy. Without doubt, I f...

The last five days are a fog. The book is up and running at 10,000 words and 51 pages. I’m still fighting back the rotten cold. I tried to g...

I’m En Fuego. I knocked another two thousand words today. I finished with a solid rush of writer’s high. The euphoria was still with me an h...

TWO THOUSAND MORE WORDS I banged out my two thousand words this morning. A new major character appeared in the story. I sure didn’t ...

James Patterson’s Advice on Writing I don’t think there are a lot of readable books out there. There are less than people think there are. I...

The wife and I just returned from a two-day recharge in Prescott, the former territorial capital of Arizona. The kids stayed home with fami...

It’s a good day to be a teacher. Over the years I’ve had occasion to question my career choice, usually because of the systemically anemic p...

AGENT SEARCH REPORT Query Emails sent 311 Rejections Received 61 Under Consideration 16 Miscellaneous Responses 2 Requests for a Second Cha...

Like most red blooded American kids, I watched a lot of television in the sixties. But now I don’t care what the temperature is. That was a...

Wednesday was my birthday. I’m…well, I’m quite young compared to the seventy-three year-old college basketball player in Tennessee. I burne...

Andrew Jackson was a bad dude, bad and maybe a little psychotic. He fought in the American Revolution and spent time as a prisoner of war. I...

I have some bad news for my fellow Ken Mink fans. It is with immeasurable anguish that I come to grips with the fact that my new personal he...

A fellow blogger posed the following question yesterday: Can you take some time sometime to suggest how I should start with sending que...

OCTOPODI I offer you a short review of the short film, Octopodi. It’s one of just two Academy Award nominated films I’ve seen this year. Oc...

JOHN HANSON I’m a little late with my Presidents Day trivia, but here goes nothin’. George Washington was elected president under the newly ...