Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
August 5, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Got a few rewrites to do? Maybe you just did some, but after a second look you realized that you have to do some more? So when can you tell whether…
Read more of “Editing the Editor”August 3, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Ever wonder how authors scribble those great opening one-liners? Perhaps you have a few favorite writers who always manage to grab you within the first…
Read more of “Anatomy of a Good Hook”August 1, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Ever felt a longing for a place you’ve never visited? Or perhaps you love the sound of a language that you don’t even know…
Read more of “Citizens of the World”July 29, 2011
Have you read the latest edition from the “Fire and Ice” series, probably the bestselling fantasy novels in stores today? Or maybe you've gotten hooked on the new HBO series about the books entitled…
Read more of “George R.R. Martin Sighting”July 27, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Do you picture an archetypal author as a bearded man who smells of pipe tobacco, clacking away at a typewriter in his lone…
Read more of “An Author’s Persona…Cool or Just a Bunch of BS?”July 25, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Comic books are just for kids, right? Or are they graphic novels that push the boundaries of illustrating and storytelling?…
Read more of “Captain America: Comic Book or Graphic Novel?”July 22, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Got Border's bucks? Use them or lose them. Borders is having their going out of sale clearance from this weekend until the end of the month, which means…
Read more of “Borders Going Out of Business Sale”July 20, 2011
Nobel Peace Prize, heard of it. Pulitzers, heard of those too. But what about the Pen Faulkner, Booker, Orange, Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, Edgar A. Poe, National Book Award, Newbury, Caldecott Medal,…
Read more of “Book Awards...How Many of These Things Are There?”July 18, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Hello Harry Potter fans, this weekend I watched the last of the films on the big screen, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part II.” Overall, a…
Read more of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part II”July 13, 2011
That's right, down in New Zealand Peter Jackson is about midway into filming scenes for the upcoming two-part movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit. Many returning actors from the LOTR…
Read more of “The Hobbit Comes to Film”