Nancy's Blog

An idea has begun to form for my projected story. Still no actual words keyed in, since I don't yet have the characters. I know what c...

How does one begin a story? Not the opening paragraphs but the concept, the idea, the situation? I am doing this now. I owe a story to a t...

In the last week or so I saw two more movies, and both confused me -- although for different reasons. TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY features ...

Literary technology continues to advance, while those of us who are electronically challenged struggle to keep up. I have a bunch of my bac...

Jonathan Franzen, the darling of American literary circles, published his novel FREEDOM a year and a half ago. I didn't read it then, b...

I have bad plane karma. Returning to Seattle from the East Coast, my flight was canceled: unrested pilots, or pilot unrest, or something. ...

I have been a bad blogger. My excuse is much holiday activity -- which included a lot of movies. Here is my take on three of them: WAR HOR...