by Bill Wren on December 20, 2010
I wrote and posted the review below about six years ago when I first read this book. I liked it so much, I’m reading it again. And so, I’m posting this again … I just finished reading one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in a while. It’s called The Dutch Wife and it’s [...]
by Bill Wren on October 27, 2010
(This is a repost of something I wrote in 2006. I have long since finished reading the book referred to. In fact, I’ve reread it since. It’s very good. By the way, this is not really a review; it’s a first impressions piece.) I’m currently reading Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting [...]
by Bill Wren on October 16, 2010
If you want someone to model yourself after as a storyteller, go to Robert Louis Stevenson. Now that guy could tell stories. Many writers, like myself, make the mistake of writing. I’ve done that and still find myself doing it. We need to stop writing and get on with telling the story. It’s the story [...]
by Bill Wren on September 30, 2010
I’ll be less silly today. I began reading a collection of short stories by Tennessee Williams last night (Collected Stories) and they gave me a sense of relief as far as my own stories, Disrupted Lives, goes. Williams is known as a playwright but he wrote stories as well. In fact, he insisted on writing [...]
by Bill Wren on September 25, 2010
I had an idea about this ebook I put together, Disrupted Lives and Other commotions. I decided against it for a number of reasons but it keeps popping up in some of my tweets and Facebook updates. Let me describe the idea. The ebook is made up of seven stories. So it is fiction (with [...]
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