Story ideas

Add layers. The more you have, the better. Don’t worry if some readers would miss them. The better ones won’t. Banish cliches. A bit of irony won’t hurt in most cases. Don’t moralize. There are enough preachers besides you. Don’t repeat what has been written already but feel free to improve the best writers’ creations….

A Soviet educational movie “2017” shot in 1960. Bering Strait will be closed by a dam to improve the climate of the Far East. Huge underground machines will mine coal beyond the Polar Circle. The alarm clock will tickle your nose. Photon rockets will take you to Alpha Centauri. You could drop a hand-written request…

What is a mensch? Mensch (Yiddish) is a person who uses a question mark at the end of an interrogative sentence.

If you can say dumb things that sound profound, you are above the grade of a failed writer.

“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.” ― Truman Capote But you can blame the writer for recording it. ― Me

He is a writer, so it’s about writing and the rest of his life. Welcome.