Chinese Whisperings is featured on J.M. Strother’s rather excellent Mad Utopia blog this week. We are the debut post in his new series “Writing in a New Era”. Jon writes of this series: … I hope (this) to be a series of explorations into some innovative writing and publishing projects. As mentioned Monday, there is [...]
Archive for November, 2009
We recognise it is a terrible tease to offer up a meagre 750 words from each story. For the majority of our writers, this is their first publishing adventure, though certainly not their first venture into the wonderful yet terrible world of fiction writing. Many of the writers here have considerable back-catalogues of stories, seen [...]
There are two questions a writer dreads: “where do you get your ideas” and “what does your story mean”. The first one is unanswerable. There is no cheat sheet of ideas that writers consult, we have no ideas hotline – I wish we did, it would make things so much easier. The second is horrible [...]
There is an ancient proverb, I think it may be Sumerian, or perhaps Babylonian – but it goes like this: If Jodi asks you if something is too crazy, think long and hard before you give an answer Had I heard this proverb earlier, life might have been a little bit different. Certainly, it would [...]
I meet Joe at a coffee shop downtown. I’d pick a bar, but out of courtesy I keep my drinking down during daylight. He spends a few minutes searching through the items I’ve brought him, becoming more excited with each new trinket. Again, he offers to pay, and again I say no. We compromise with [...]
That’s all in the past now. Except when Isaac calls. “Got a job for you Jake.” Can’t turn down those jobs. He’s got my balls in the vice till the day I die. “Don’t want anyone finding out what really happened now do we Jake?” The moaning and wailing starts early tonight. Not even midnight [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with Richard Jay Parker.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
