fiction Archives - Bill LaBrie

Writers: Your Twitter Sh*t is Boring

by Bill LaBrie | Jan 17, 2016 | Essays

It’s hard to imagine another person as utterly horrible as Hunter S. Thompson. Antisocial alcoholic drug addict who even failed as a narcissist. Verbally abusive, a liar, and a self-absorbed pedant. Not far behind him are people like Ernest Hemingway, Norman...

REVIEW: 1984 by George Orwell

by Bill LaBrie | Mar 23, 2015 | Essays

1984 came thirty years late, some would have us know. The total surveillance Orwell describes required technology that was still a dream in the 1980’s, but is commonplace now. We are now living in a time when some televisions (and almost all computers) literally...

Inspiration: “Sid, You’re Perfect Just as You Are”

by Bill LaBrie | Dec 18, 2014 | Writing

I like having fun. Things I think are fun are many and varied. To me, almost anything can be fun. This — more than anything else — is the key to my own particular brand of success, such as it is. When I decided to write my novel I set my computer up...

Reader Complaints About Modern Fiction

by Bill LaBrie | Oct 13, 2014 | Careers, Coping, Culture, Essays, Literature, Writing, Writing-Publishing

Instead of using a Facebook book promo forum to do a BUY BUY BUY on my new book this weekend, I pulled a fast one: I asked the participants what they didn’t like about modern fiction. Fellow authors: These people are your market. They’re the...

Daft Punk and My Influences

by Bill LaBrie | Oct 6, 2014 | Writing-Publishing

It’s time to talk over my influences as an artist. I’m scheduled to take over a couple of author-promotion events on Facebook next weekend. I need something to talk about. First, I’ll say that this. . . this has been one of my most serious...