Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Getting writing advice is a tricky thing. I hired a freelance editor to go over my fairy version of The War of the Worlds , tentatively call...

Last Saturday I went to Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, north of Seattle. I was shocked to find the restaurants still open in the food court, bu...

 

As advertised, I attended a great writers conference. The Pacific Northwest Writers Conference normally meets in SeaTac (yes, the city thoug...

 So I set my printer up with a USB cord, but how to make it work? The printer’s program on my computer demanded a PIN number. Why? I wasn’t ...

My old printer died. It was about twenty years old. It used the old 45 black ink, which places like OfficeDepot don’t even carry anymore. Th...

So it was time to pack up some books that I either won’t need anymore or decided weren’t that interesting. Holding the box in front of the u...

I think it’s important for writers to write down their dreams. Here’s one I had on the night of July 4 th . # Three of the Harry P...

So the news came in that Grant Imahara of Mythbusters fame passed away. He was only 49. He had a brain aneurysm. I thought he was the...