fiction
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I wrote the post below for Your Angry Pediatrician after a recent sit down to watch “Goodfellas,” one of my favorite mob movies (the first two Godfathers, and Casino are on the short list as well). Listening to Henry Hill’s monologues, it was too perfect a fit for today’s lunatic, depraved criminality in and around…
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Things get messy when fat stacks hit the table This is more a speculative essay than a good old angry rant. You know my opinions about the adverse effects of social media in the hands of the grifting “influencers”. We’ve always had frauds and charlatans peddling snake oil and potions, but the powerful manipulation of…
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One challenge all writers of fiction encounter at some point is how much detail to give, especially around interesting plot points. Too much, and you risk killing the narrative flow by sounding tedious and pedantic. Too little, and the reader may become confused and lose interest. I call this Breadcrumbs versus Spoonfeeding. Every cool story…
