Tag Archives: Short Story

On Writing: Keep It Simple

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 15, 2010
The best advice I can give on writing: Keep it simple. You don’t often hear this.  I don’t know why.  Maybe because if people knew how easy it was to write a story, they’d stop paying professional novelologist to do it and just do it themselves.  Although perhaps easy is the wrong word because novelology [...]
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A Peacock Ready to Fly

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 10, 2010
The problem with government, especially government by the people, is that people tend to be jerks.  Not intentionally.  They just don’t take the time to grasp that just because something isn’t important to you that it might not be important to a lot of other people.  It’s the limits of our own experience, the inability to see beyond our own doorstep, [...]
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Ask a Smart Guy: The Novelology Marathon

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 23, 2010
Hello, hello.  What’s this?  Two blog posts in one week?  Well, why the heck not? It’s time for our infrequent and irregular Ask A Smart Guy segment.  Let’s start with this comment someone recently posted on the site. I have been an aspiring writer for five++ years, and still cannot find a method that works [...]
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