Novels and short stories. Available for editing fiction also. Washington, DC.
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- Magnolia Nights - a very short story 5:40pm Dec 26|29 Comments
- Twitter fiction 8:39pm Nov 8|6 Comments
- Shooting star - A facebook fictionette 4:43pm Nov 7
Robb Grindstaff Snowbound. I could spend the weekend writing. Or shoveling. Shoveling words onto a page or shoveling snow off the porch, sidewalk, car, parking space. Or I could take a nap. Decisions, decisions.
Robb Grindstaff Good writing is like good photography. Get in close. Closer. So close you can see what's behind the eyes. Take lots and lots of shots, but only show the good ones. Compose the whole image in your mind first. After you take the shot, play with the colors and contrast until you get it just right. Then crop it down to jus...t what's needed to make it a great photo.
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"Use as many adjectives as you can." He slowly walked the slow, winding path towards the crooked, run-down old house. With one slow, hesitant hand he bravely, resolutely knocked on the dusty, pock-marked, ancient and frightening door. Slowly, it opened slowly. He slowly poked his brave head through the narrow, forebodi...ng gap.
‘Hello?’ he slowly said, bravely.Just then, suddenly (yet strangely slowly), a terrifying, scary, bone-chilling, face-tingling, stupefyingly mortifying and stultifying, yet oddly inconsequential and subtly fragrant, big, massive, enormous multi-hued, monochrome monstrosity of epic, legendary, massive, indescribable proportions burst thunderingly from the shadowy, ill-defined, hazy, portentous, generically appropriate yet obviously underdeveloped and self-evidently over-described dark, dark darkness. ‘RAAAAAAH!’ it said.
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Standing on my feet on the floor of my kitchen in my home in Glasgow, I looked with my blue eyes out of the double-glazed window which sat in the middle of the wall like a clear panel of carefully-engineered plastic in the middle of an interior wall. ...
These are the nights I love to lie in bed and not sleep. The house is quiet, june bugs tap-tap-tap against the screen. The magnolia tree blows its perfumed breath into my room and I have an urge to run out and give her a thank-you hug...
Robb Grindstaff All I want for Christmas is a literary agent. And a six-figure publishing deal, and Spielberg to make an offer for film rights. Is that really so much to ask for during this season of joy?
Robb Grindstaff "The Stealthy Erotica Wars of Ancient Japan," by Anais Ninja
Robb Grindstaff Fiction writers - a lot to be learned from a good songwriter. Minimal words, maximum story, engage all the senses. "sittin in the kitchen, a house in macon, loretta singing on the radio. smell of coffee, eggs and bacon, car wheels on a gravel road. set of keys and a dusty suitcase, there goes the screen door slammin' s...hut, you better do what what you're told, when i get back this place better be picked up. low hum of voices in the front seat, stories nobody knows, got folks in Jackson we're going to meet. cotton fields stretching miles and miles, hank's voice on the radio, telephone poles, trees and wires fly on by. broken down shacks, engine parts, could tell a lie but my heart would know, listen to the dogs barking in the yard. child in the back seat about 4 or 5 years looking out the window, little bit of dirt mixed with tears, car wheels on a gravel road."
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From her Grammy award winning 1998 album. Video recorded live in Austin Texas.
Shelly OK. I've read the first 2 chapters of Carry Me Away. Now I'm addicted; I'm a junky. Just one more chapter, man?!
Robb Grindstaff In addition, he had a rare talent for finding the interesting parts of someone's generally uninteresting comments so that, when speaking to him, you felt that you were an exceptionally interesting person with an exceptionally interesting life. - Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Robb Grindstaff From Hannah's Voice, Hannah, 16, is interviewed on a network TV morning news program: “Tell our viewers why you’re typing your answers.” i don’t speak “You don’t speak or you can’t speak?” im not sure anymore “But you used to speak.” yes “How long has it been?” 10 yrs “Do you remember why you quit talking?” sort of “Ca...n you tell us?” i didn’t like people paying attention to me “And how’s that working out for you?”
Robb Grindstaff Writing Lessons - my guest post on Michelle Witte's blog on 10 things I've learned about writing. http://belletrinsic.com/blog/?p=266
Kevin Williams Just thought I would let you know I will be in Dallas for a conference and will see Tim and family. Wish you could make it and reunite the Three Amigos.
Robb Grindstaff My review of Rachel Beam's novel, Saturn's Return. http://tiny.cc/SaturnsReturn
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Just for grins, while everyone else is doing NaNo to see if they can write a novel in a month, I thought I'd see how little I could write. Even tighter than Facebook Fictionette, Twitter Fiction - exactly 140 characters/spaces per entry. Here's a 3-part twit fic...
