Category: Blog

Of Pirates and Constructive Criticism

I’ve spent all of 2009 so far writing and refining a two-act comedy stage play about pirates who take over a Caribbean cruise ship. . . . Yes, I realized halfway through the first draft that the timing of this idea is a little off. Damned Somalis.

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The Maltese Falcon

[copied from my old Myspace blog] The book for this year’s NEA Big Read is The Maltese Falcon, written by Dashiell Hammett in the 1920s.  The

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Obscenity

[copied from my old Myspace blog] Today, my local newspaper, the Staunton News Leader, ran this letter from me: Obscenity laws confusing and unfair Over

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More time to write?

[copied from my old Myspace blog] This week marks a new era in the Warner household.  I’ve quit my job as a paralegal and have

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