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Exuberant Reader Review
The Moth continues to scuffle up readers who get the book. I particularly liked this review -- Ryan put a lot of work into it. What if...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 292 min read


HAPPY BLOOMSDAY
Dubliners take Joyce's Ulysses as it is, and on this day, read it aloud, on the street, cover to cover. Outsiders are less kind. From the...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 162 min read


READER REVIEW
This reader gets the ethos of the Moth: " I could not help but root for The Moth." Hard Neighborhood for an Insect, Even A Death Head...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 151 min read


USING ZOOM MORE AND ENJOYING IT
Here's Some Hints on Improving Hybrid Zooms Or Google Meet, WebEx, and Jitsi As writers circles become less local and more connected...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 82 min read


A Quick Craft Series On Sentences, WRAPUP
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 5 Broken By Its Own Weight Loose Sentences That Break Under Their Own Weight: This set of examples is...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 12 min read


A Review, SEREN, by PETER GOOCH
And Who Is The Elusive Seren One of my sadnesses is that I shall not be able to read this book again for the first time. But being a...
Scott Archer Jones
May 242 min read


A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 4 Take Five Minutes to Fall Off A Cliff Subordinate trailing clauses with past participles and past...
Scott Archer Jones
May 181 min read


A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 3 Outfox Your Bad Writing -- Focus on The Sentence Introductory Clauses with infinite (“ing”) verbs:...
Scott Archer Jones
May 111 min read


A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 2 Hemingway Throwing A Baseball in a Bar The Three Beat Drum: Think you’re Hemingway? Live for short...
Scott Archer Jones
May 43 min read


A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: #1 The Passive Voice: Your goat wrecked my garden – versus – My garden was wrecked by your goat. Ready...
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 271 min read


AN UNHAPPY COUNTRY —Loretta Miles Tollefson
Book Launches Today In 1846 in North America, the stakes couldn’t be higher for the US and Mexico. Polk has risen to the Presidency by...
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 182 min read


From Barn To Winery To Family
What Keeps Us Coming Back
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 132 min read


Arcadia Swept Down
Here’s a 1000 word story published in 2024 by Manzano Mountain Review. I based it on an obituary and a house in Galveston, Texas. Living...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 304 min read


Gilgamesh - a Film Treatment For The First Action Hero
Gilgamesh Hanging Out With His Lion Meeting for NETFLIX Concept Team Scott Archer Jones History of the Story: In the third millennium,...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 166 min read


At The Tucson Festival of Books
We're at the New Mexico Book Association at Booth #149 Selling The Moth , and our other books --- Come on by and see us -- March 15-16 on...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 121 min read


Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, New Ground
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 92 min read


Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, # 8
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 21 min read


Requiem For A Humble Man, Part 2
See here for Part 1 Living On The Mountain ... When Vietnam had done filling him up with long-term poisons, Dave Ambrose came home to own...
ohjammer
Feb 272 min read


Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, #7
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 232 min read


Requiem for a humble man, Part 1
Vietnam, A Prologue and Epilogue of Our Elegy Biography is tainted by the cult of the Great Man. Statesmen, Celebrities, Criminals,...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 193 min read
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