Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
June 13, 2011
So I took the plunge and started writing articles for the Examiner.com online. A friend of mine referred me to them and they hired me as a “San Francisco Adventure Traveler” writer responsible for…
Read more of “Writing for the Examiner.com”June 10, 2011
We often learn the classics in school, from Homer to Shakespeare, and few would debate their uncontested value today. At the same time, less entertaining writers like Pope, Dryden, and Spencer appear…
Read more of “High Art vs. Low Art”June 8, 2011
Last night I saw U2 live at the Coliseum in Oakland, CA where they preformed a 20 song set, complete with massive electric screens, awesome instrumentals, soaring vocals, and even a conversation with…
Read more of “Rocking Out with U2”June 6, 2011
Famous Modernist author, T.S. Eliot, called plot out of date, out of style, a remnant of a bygone era, or as he liked to put it…passé. Of course, the guy was practically a Fascist and a snob to boot,…
Read more of “Is Plot Passé?”June 3, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I rather randomly stumbled across the wide world of book collecting the other day and was astounded by how much hardcore book collectors will pay for…
Read more of “Make $10,000 for Collecting Books?”June 1, 2011
It seems anything written today with a vampire in it makes it to publication, but for those of us who prefer not to turn Abe Lincoln or Jane Austen into a bloodsucker, what are the best selling…
Read more of “Genre Jinx”May 27, 2011
Ah, the eternal question. It seems between jobs, school, family, etc. etc. life just gets in the way of your sitting around time, or as Whitman used to call it “loafing.” So how are writers supposed…
Read more of “How Do You Find the Time?”May 25, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If I have to live through one more apocalypse that feels oddly like an average day I swear I’ll die of boredom. Just kidding.…
Read more of “The End of the World…again”May 23, 2011
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The joys of social media provide us with connections to friends, acquaintances, and strangers where we can say as much or as…
Read more of “Pick Your Favorite Stalkers”May 20, 2011
My mother read a draft of my latest novel the other day and halfway through one chapter she looked up at me in a very motherly way and said that she just came across the first “naughty” word in my…
Read more of “Curse Words in Print”