by D. L. Koontz | May 16, 2014 | Journal
I write because I like creating something from nothing. Molding an entire world. Filling it with potential. Plunking in characters that I love and setting them free. Sound familiar? Does it remind you a bit of Genesis 1, and how God must have felt at creation? I’m not...
by D. L. Koontz | Apr 24, 2012 | Journal, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
I journeyed the Blue Ridge from Georgia back to Marpennsylginia this past weekend. Unbeknownst to me, an email went out earlier declaring this past weekend as the date everyone over age 90 from the following states/provinces was to migrate back to the North for the...
by D. L. Koontz | Feb 24, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer, Sense and Nonsense
When the Farmers Exchange clock on my mantel strikes midnight and I find myself writing a sentence like this one: “Watch out for the tree!” Adriana barked… …well, you know it’s time to get some rest. If you didn’t catch the “Tom Swiftie”...
by D. L. Koontz | Jan 17, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer, Sense and Nonsense
When I get exasperated with social networking, I often think of that poor bewildered character, “Jack.” You know the guy ― the protagonist in the children’s nursery rhyme, “The House that Jack Built.” If you need a refresher of the rhyme,...