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What I’m Reading Now: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
I tend to be impatient with fiction. I can’t put a book down without finishing it, so I get impatient when a book is just okay and I wish I was reading something else. At this point in my life I read a lot of non-fiction. I think it’s likely because...
On Being a Screenwriter (or Down the Rabbit’s Hole)
I am so excited about having the opportunity to get my mystery novel, On the Road to Death’s Door, out to people via Amazon. But the format I honed my skills on is screenwriting. Back in the 1990s I had the opportunity to team up with Christine DeSmet, a...
Stephen Colbert Interviews Maurice Sendak
OMG! OMG! OMG! Did you catch Stephen Colbert’s interview with Maurice Sendak? Spoiler alert: Where The Wild Things Are is not what you think it is…according to Sendak. And Sendak is not what you might think he is. But…what a wonderful old...
What 1,000,000 Means to Me
I have so many things I want to blog about, but I think I will delve into politics for a bit. Disclaimer: I am an unabashed progressive. Very much a liberal, though a perhaps a bit moderate in my later years. If you can’t stand people who think true Americans take...
My Mystery Novel: On the Road to Death’s Door
It’s not news to anyone who knows me that I recently co-wrote and published a mystery novel called On the Road to Death’s Door. The story takes place in Wisconsin’s scenic Door County. The heroes of the novel are a retired couple, Emily and Stan Remington. My...
Why am I Blogging? And Why MadCityWriter?
I blog because writing is just something I have to do. And it’s a way to procrastinate from writing my novels and screenplays, while feeling like I’m doing something legitimate.I certainly don’t believe I am a great writer, or even a particularly good writer. However,...
Welcome to Musings of a MadCityWriter!
My goal with this blog is to entertain, inform, and perhaps even engage you, the reader, as I embark on this new segment of my journey as a writer, a reader, a teacher, and an observer of life. My life as a writer: I have always been a writer. I worked on my class...