DONALD J. BINGLE

If you read a lot of books and you've never heard of Storybundle, you should definitely check it out. Basically, a Storybundle curator...

Andy Weir's The Martian already has more than 7,500 reviews on Amazon, so I doubt my review would be much noticed there, which is why I...

This is actually a combination of two posts originally posted in August of 2014: GISHWHES, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the...

There's no M. Night Shyamalan twist here. I'm not the world's best writer. Duh. I know that. As this blog proves, I'm not the world's...

Did you ever notice that some buskers (street performers) bring a box or milk crate to stand on while they perform? They do that so that...

I'm a writer, but I confess I haven't written a book in a while. I've written a number of short stories recently and two novellas under...

When I was in law school, at The University of Chicago on the south side of the city, I dated someone from one of the tony, rich suburbs...

I've already blogged about serendipity in my writing career and about my reluctance to write for free, at least in situations where I am...

My last blog post dealt with issues raised by letting people at work know you are a writer, but one thing I did not touch on in that post...

If you are a full-time writer without a day-job, this post is not for you. But if, like most writers, you have a day-job to pay the bills...

My wife and I used to go to a lot of local art fairs (before all of our available wall space was pretty well occupied). One of the things...