Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
March 12, 2010
Friday has come and as usual my mood lightens up at the prospect of the coming weekend. Today I’ve just posted a fun little idea my wife and I joked about the other night, basically comparing…
Read more of “Take the What-Would-Shakespeare-Do Quiz”March 10, 2010
That’s right folks, George R.R. Martin, the world famous fantasy writer of the seven book saga of "Fire and Ice" recently announced on his blog (quirkily titled “ Not a Blog ”) that HBO has begun…
Read more of “George R.R. Martin Fans Rejoice! A Game of Thrones comes to HBO.”March 9, 2010
Meet Meghan Sullivan. She writes historical fiction and currently has a manuscript out on a book about the ancient Greek General Themistocles, which you can learn more about on her site Ancient…
Read more of “Praise for Ancient Musings”March 8, 2010
This week’s short-story contest winner is Stacy Grow! Her name was drawn from a hat amongst the other followers listed on this blog and inserted as the hero/heroine’s name in this week’s story.…
Read more of “Weekly Short-Story Contest: Envy”March 5, 2010
A professor of mine back in college once forewarned my class and I with this haunting phrase: What have you done with your life so far? In other words, what have you accomplished? It was a class on…
Read more of “Why We Must Write…Why We Must Create”March 4, 2010
Viacom, the media industry monopoly that owns just about everything you see on TV has already sued and filed lawsuits against just about every online form of media competition posting TV clips you…
Read more of “Suing Bloggers?”March 3, 2010
Today I wanted to give you guys an update on my latest progress with my civil war novel, The Long Defeat . I’ve pitched the story to multiple literary agents both online and face-to-face at the San…
Read more of “Progress with Civil War Novel”March 2, 2010
Help the people of Chile. At the store yesterday I saw so many relief ads for Haiti, which I find truly wonderful and they definitely need continued support, but I think Chile has been overshadowed…
Read more of “Support Disaster Relief in Chile”March 1, 2010
Wow! Making a story out of another person’s hook sentence proved a lot harder that I thought, but I had a lot of fun trying it. This week’s mystery-name winner is Laurel Penrose! Like every week, I…
Read more of “Second Mystery-Name Contest Winner: Greed in the City”February 26, 2010
February 26th is officially Inappropriate Card Day! You may ask yourself, what exactly is this would-be holiday? A coworker of mine actually started it years ago, and it has since developed a cult…
Read more of “Happy Inappropriate Card Day!”
