Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
February 25, 2010
Can you sum up an entire story in one sentence? As we roll into week-two of our forty days and forty nights of contests I’ve received a lot of great opening sentence suggestions from people all…
Read more of “Single Sentence Story Contest…”February 23, 2010
Today I have a guest blog by my friend, Lawrence, who is trying to help a dear friend of his in a time of great need. Please give a few moments of your day to read about his friend Phil and how he…
Read more of “Help Phil Fight”February 22, 2010
We have a winner! In this week’s story I have taken the name of the contest winner (drawn by chance from a hat with 18 other names) and inserted their name into the place of the missing character in…
Read more of “Mardi Gras Mystery-Name Contest Winner!!!”February 19, 2010
Keep your eyes out for upcoming events! What’s latest in the news? Any interesting developments publicly? Personally? All of this can provide potential fodder for each weekly contest posted on this…
Read more of “Keep Your Eye On The News…”February 18, 2010
Want to be the next hero in one of my stories? Fat Tuesday has come and gone, and the somberness of Lent looms before us, so I’ve decided to kickoff my 40 days of penance with a series of…
Read more of “Mardi Gras Mystery-Name Contest!”February 16, 2010
The 2010 San Francisco Writer’s Conference rocks! I just finished my first weekend at this three day extravaganza conducted at the prestigious Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Each…
Read more of “San Francisco Writer’s Conference”February 9, 2010
When it comes to researching background information for a book many tried and true approaches come to mind. You can read about a subject in books, you can visit the setting where something took…
Read more of “Research for my Civil War Novel”February 3, 2010
Now I have not self-published, nor do I have any such plans. However, I know people who have self-published, some happily, some not so much. It all depends what you want. So this week I’ve written my…
Read more of “To Self-Publish or Not To Self-Publish?”January 28, 2010
Despite having limited experience writing mysteries, I thought the proverbial “what-the-heck” to myself and decided to try writing some. My wife in particular likes mystery-style tales and I wrote…
Read more of “The Literary Murders”January 21, 2010
My newest short-story could also double as a continuum to my previously posted short-story, “Red Hero.” Essentially a sequel, or even potentially a second chapter, “White Queen” is set within the…
Read more of “New Short-Story: “White Queen””
