Browsing Archive: March, 2011
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Wednesday, March 30, 2011,
I don't tweet. I love to blog; I tolerate facebook; I draw the line
when it comes to twitter. But I'm sure that many of you have active
twitter accounts, so I figured I'd pass this one along. I received an
email from my friends at Magna cum Murder.
Apparently one of their interns, a student at Ball State University,
has "decided to craft a murder mystery that will take place entirely
through a real time twitter feed." In classic mystery fashion,
seven characters go to dinner at a ma... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Tuesday, March 22, 2011,
Yesterday, at Mike Manno's blog,
Mike asked me about spare time and I said "In my spare time, I drink
scotch and complain that I don't have time to write." No one has spare
time these days. We are all far too busy for that. But every now and
then life conspires to give us time. Yesterday, was one of those days. I
found myself in need of a quick trip to Washington DC yesterday. An
errand of sorts. A conversation. But it's nearly 400 miles round-trip
to run that errand, to have tha... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Monday, March 14, 2011,
Once upon a time, I had a chance to listen to best-selling author Anne
Perry talk about research. She said, and I'm paraphrasing here, If
you're writing a story set in a sewer, you can do your research on the
internet, but if you're writing a story set in Venice, you can fly to
Italy and claim it on your taxes as a business expense.So
I've been looking for a location somewhere in the northwest corner of
New Jersey to use as the setting for a certain short story. In this
context, I'm ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Friday, March 4, 2011,
When I need a good quote about writing (or, for that matter, about
religion) I often turn to "God made man because he loves stories."
It's from a Hasidic parable that Elie Wiesel recounts as a preface of
sorts to his book, The Gates of the Forest. I posted the parable once
before, nearly two years ago, but blog years are even longer than dog
years, so I figure there's only a few of you who've seen this. When
the great Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov saw misfortune threatening the
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Thursday, March 3, 2011,
When my short story, The Sound Bite, was first published by woman's corner magazine (when was that anyway? 2006?), the editors wrote the following, by way of introduction -
Author Jeff Markowitz writes, "I've always wanted to write a story about the early 70s, about the blending of anti-war politics, eastern spirituality, sex, drugs and music that we once called the counter-culture and about the underlying innocence of those turbulent years."
Indeed, for those of us who experienced tho... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Thursday, March 3, 2011,
Here's an announcement from the Watchung Booksellers website
about the upcoming Writing Matters panel, March 25 in Montclair, NJ.
If you're in the area, I hope you'll come by and join the conversation.
OUR TWO PART WRITING MATTERS PANEL CONCLUDES WITH:
GENRE VERSUS LITERARY FICTION:
MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE OR FALSE DISTINCTION?
In January over sixty Writing Matters guests joined a panel of novelists
to discuss the question of what makes a novel literary...or not.
Now, we flip flop th... Continue reading ...
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Folks tell me that my blog address is cumbersome, that it's hard to spell and even harder to remember. They may very well be right. Although it's derived from the title of my first mystery, even I can recognize that it's not a user-friendly address. So this page will contain selected entries from that blog. Each entry will include a link back to the original post. Use the link to read comments about the post and to add your own.
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