Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
August 25, 2010
My wife recently started journaling again and, frankly, it’s an ability I wish I had. Keeping a journal has something of a mystique to me, probably because everyone from famous writers to ordinary…
Read more of “Journaling”August 23, 2010
--> Nope, I’m not asking about your stress levels here. Instead, today I’m bringing up tense in writing, particularly with regards to fiction. Why do we always seem to write in the past tense?…
Read more of “Tense?”August 20, 2010
It’s Friday! Which means the weekend and hanging out and movies and no work (hopefully). Last weekend I saw the new film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and if you haven’t seen this film yet, this…
Read more of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”August 18, 2010
Okay maybe simply writing a few phrases and calling them a poem isn’t too hard, but I’m finding that making a decent haiku isn’t exactly a piece of cake. Why am I trying to create a piece of Japanese…
Read more of “Haikus are Hard”August 16, 2010
--> This weekend I jammed for the first time in a long while with my good friend and former bass player of my old college garage band. Seeing as I cleaned out the garage in my house for the first…
Read more of “Getting the Band Back Together”August 13, 2010
--> I’ve been in a bit of a Thoreau mood lately as my summer garden comes closer and closer to fruition. When I blogged about spring planting back in April, I was pleasantly surprised to find out how…
Read more of “Steal into the Garden”August 11, 2010
One of the things that sticks in my mind from school is a professor I had who could recite volumes of his favorite poetry verbatim. He would recite Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats at the drop of a hat…
Read more of “The Gift You Take with You”August 9, 2010
--> Strike while the iron is hot. It’s cliché, but true. When inspiration strikes it rarely chooses a convenient moment or consults your current schedule. I’m enthusiastic as ever about promoting my…
Read more of “A New Novel”August 6, 2010
Now that I’ve had my civil war novel, The Long Defeat , professionally edited and polished I have been shopping around with various literary agents for the past several months. Needless to say, it’s…
Read more of “Update with Agents”August 4, 2010
--> Last night I pulled out the telescope to do some stargazing and afterwards I flipped through an astronomy book to look some things up. So what does this have to do with writing a novel? Bear with…
Read more of “How Small is Your World?”