March 2007 Blog Posts (300)

What's New With Me

I have just moved to Ashland, Oregon from the Bay Area. Still getting settled in. My fiction, however, will not move with me. The idea is while I sit at my desk looking out over mountains and tall spruce, my poor characters are back there in the mean streets of Oakland, which is definitely surging towards murder capital of the world, lucky to survive from day to day. It's not fair but who said novel writing has got to be fair?

I have just learned that one of my stories "Juanita" has… Continue

Added by Tim Wohlforth on March 17, 2007 at 9:31am — No Comments

The Accidental Poet

In my latest forum discussion, I ask if anyone on Crimespace reads and/or writes poetry as I do. I came to poetry almost by accident, but now it's just as important to me as my prose.

Added by Gerald So on March 17, 2007 at 8:28am — No Comments

Book/Crime Reviews

Over on Sarah Weinman's blog, there is a thread running about book reviewing - more specifically, how book review space is shrinking in newspapers around the country. It turns out that this is a subject I have a view on. Also, it's snowing heavily outside so I have the time.

It seems to me that the book industry was, for a long time, culturally relevant in ways it can no longer be. That is to say, that at one time it was the only cultural game in town. And the realease of the…

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Added by Steven Torres on March 17, 2007 at 7:45am — 3 Comments

Writing avoidance technique

If you're looking for more ways not to write, you can watch CREDO (my last short film) here:

http://www.woollymammoth.com/credo/credo_rlp.html

It was in a bunch of festivals last year, and just went online a few minutes ago.

If you're really lucky, you'll have computer problems when you try to watch it, and won't have to write at all today!

Added by Keith Snyder on March 17, 2007 at 6:37am — No Comments

Currently reading

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Up Next: 23 Shades of Black by K. J. A. Wishnia

I'll also be very busy this weekend watching my favorite sport, college basketball. Go Heels!!!

Added by Alice Morgan on March 17, 2007 at 5:45am — No Comments

An bhfuil tú ar meisce fós?

From Noirwriter:

I have an essay up on Alex Carr's website for her new book, An Accidental American. (By the way, Carr is actually Jenny Siler...when the medication is working). It comes out at an appropriate time as tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and… Continue

Added by Steve Allan on March 17, 2007 at 3:31am — No Comments

Muddling through the day

Lord, what a disjointed day it's been. One minute calm and the next in the depths of frustration - never say my life is not a rollercoaster ride. You must get tired reading about it, but that ain't nothing compared to actually being on the damn thing! Ah well.

The good news however is that my friend with the dead grandfather (at last! at last!) has this week just bagged her first headteacher job - hurrah!! No, double hurrah!! And I'm seeing her tomorrow at her husband's 60th (he's…

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Added by Anne Brooke on March 17, 2007 at 2:52am — No Comments

Two names routinely pop up among readers and writers as I troll around the net, Ken Bruen and George Pelecanos. I consider myself an avid reader, devouring, on average, a hundred books a year. Not on…

Two names routinely pop up among readers and writers as I troll around the net, Ken Bruen and George Pelecanos. I consider myself an avid reader, devouring, on average, a hundred books a year. Not once has a Ken Bruen masterpiece found its way on my list. Same with Pelecanos, only one (Right as Rain). Why?…

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Added by Jeff Greene on March 17, 2007 at 2:48am — 1 Comment

Running Repeats

Tribe at Flashing in the Gutters (RIP) was kind enough to post some of my shortest fiction. Now that the site is down, I thought I repost those stories. They were fun to write, Hell to trim down to Flash size. I cut 196 words from the one I post today. Formatting will probably be screwy until I can figure out how to do that. Here goes:…

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Added by Steven Torres on March 17, 2007 at 12:34am — No Comments

Crime Time TV (Updated)

I started a discussion yesterday about NBC's new shows Andy Barker, P.I. and Raines. After their premieres last night, I've added my reaction. Feel free to add yours.

Added by Gerald So on March 16, 2007 at 9:13pm — 1 Comment

Heads-up

Check the Heads-up Display (above) for news and links of my latest fictitious crime and feel free to discuss it on the Chatterwall (below).

Added by Gerald So on March 16, 2007 at 8:29pm — No Comments

What the fuck

So I made a mistake that I make every so often, I read Dorthy L.

There were some posts about Casino Royale so I just had to check them out.

These people need drug testing, or maybe they need to do drugs, or

drink, they need to do the opposite of whatever it is they do.

"The new bond is wimpy and effeminate, There's not enough action, I turned it off half way through..."

Wimpy??? Did they not see the ass kicking going on in the… Continue

Added by Jon Jordan on March 16, 2007 at 12:31pm — 28 Comments

Low Down In Between Blues

In the week (or so) right after I hit a tough deadline, I always seem to find myself wandering around in a sort of scatterbrained daze, unable to focus or concentrate and constantly feeling like I’ve forgotten something critical. I wanted to be done with CHOKE HOLD a month ago, but it got derailed by this upfront paying gig and so now I’m way behind. I was hoping to slip right back into it, but I feel restless and unsure of every word. I know I’ll come around eventually, like I always do, but I… Continue

Added by Christa Faust on March 16, 2007 at 10:25am — 4 Comments

Interview on First Offenders

Psst. Come on over to First Offenders Blog and read my interview with critically acclaimed mystery author Craig Johnson.

www.firstoffenders.typepad.com

Added by Lori G. Armstrong on March 16, 2007 at 8:00am — No Comments

So many sites, so little time

I haven't been here much the last couple of days because like a moron I accepted six assignments for freelance stories for the Hartford Courant. And they're all due in two weeks. So if I'm a little quiet right now, that's the reason why. I also have a book to write (and I know Kristen is lurking around here somewhere, so yes, I really am working on that, too...really!). I touted this over at First Offenders this week, and I… Continue

Added by Karen E. Olson on March 16, 2007 at 6:59am — No Comments

Another way to waste time!

Just as My Space loses it's luster, Mr. Jordan introduced me to Crimespace. So now I can get sucked into this.

Like I don't have enough online things to occupy my time. I already spend waaay too much time blathering on about books, movies and MMA.

Added by Jeremy Lynch on March 16, 2007 at 3:44am — No Comments

Counselling and time for thought

A very intense counselling session with Kunu today, but a worthwhile one too. She's halfway through "A Dangerous Man" (http://www.flamebooks.com) and is finding it "gripping", so that felt nice. We talked about family and my place in it - a subject we looked at briefly last week, but in more depth today. To be honest, I got rather tearful about it but even that felt like a good place to be. A couple of times towards the…

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Added by Anne Brooke on March 16, 2007 at 3:18am — No Comments

The Key to the Kingdom

The following is a cross-post from my website blog:

Everybody’s looking for it. Years ago, when I was an aspiring writer, I wanted desperately to find that magic

key that would let me into the world of the pros, would open up that

treasure box full of secrets — especially the ones that would get me

published or produced.

I searched high and low for that key. I read books about writing,…

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Added by Robert Gregory Browne on March 16, 2007 at 2:34am — 11 Comments

Ancient Art Form or Here To Stay?

I'm talking about the Short Story, Barflys. I have two fingers of Macallans at my side as I ponder this quandry (It's been bothering the hell out of me for sometime) and I thought Crimespace would be an excellent place to pose this question.

I find, if I leave this realm of Murder and Mayhem, that the Short Story holds little respect in other forms of literature. People seem to treat it like the red-headed step-child of fiction. This upsets me. Most of the stories I remember with… Continue

Added by DADavenport on March 15, 2007 at 2:17pm — 7 Comments

So a Writer Walks Into a Bar...

By Cornelia

If you ever get to the point with writing where you feel that, as James

Joyce once said, "writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever

devised for sins committed in previous lives," here are some jokes to

cheer you up: