Gang Author Faces Life in Prison
Colton Simpson, author of Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.’s Most Notorious Gang, was found guilty of robbing a jewelry store on Monday. “With 10 previous convictions for serious crimes, the 41-year-old man could face life behind bars when he is sentenced Sept. 28,” reported the Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors used passages from the book…
continue readingUnstoppable Ideas
I’ve never really understood writer’s block. Or, at least not in the middle of a project. Typically my problem is being unable to stop ideas. I seem to have an obsessive-type of focus that comes when I’m really into something. In graduate school, I was writing a collection of short stories for my master’s thesis.…
continue readingBack up, Back up, Back up
For the love of God, people, back up your computers! My hard drive crashed the other day. Luckily, I do have at least most of the files backed up to an external drive. So I can restore without too much pain and discomfort. I’ll lose some stuff (like that copy of Faster Pussycat’s greatest hits and those…
continue readingPalahniuk Interviewed in Writer’s Digest
There’s a good interview with Chuck Palahniuk in the October issue of Writer’s Digest. The Fight Club author makes some suggestions that are useful to us all. When interviewer Jordan E. Rosenfeld asks how he knows an idea can support a novel, Palahniuk responds, “It’s usually a premise that I can present in a short…
continue readingGet Well Soon, Bo
You know you’re a musical badass when there’s a beat named after you. So let’s all hope that guitar icon Bo Diddley recovers quickly from a heart attack he suffered recently. Get well soon, Bo.
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