DONALD J. BINGLE

I know that there are a lot of nerds out there that think Joss Whedon can do no wrong and, trust me, I'm a fan, too (with a genuine...

Great and gracious greetings! Being an author is like being an actor or a door-to-door salesman. There's lots of rejection and...

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...

Writers write for all sorts of reasons, but the general public always seems to want to create a simple dichotomy between writers who...

In the midst of my Kickstarter campaign for Frame Shop, Gail Martin offered to let me do a guest blog post on Killing Off Fictional...

During the Kickstarter for Frame Shop, Jennifer Brozek, a prolific writer and fellow GenCon Writers' Symposium panelist, let me do a...

Janine Spendlove let me guest blog on her site during the Kickstarter for Frame Shop because, well, she's generally a swell friend. Check...

As most of you probably know by now, I launched a Kickstarter today for my novella, Frame Shop. It’s a mystery/thriller set in a writers’...

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

Summer is not only convention season--I am a regular panelist on writing topics at both Origins and GenCon--but it is also the season for...

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...

Finally got around to watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug via Netflix a few days ago. Why didn’t I go see it in the theater?...

Went to see Transcendence last night (a better than expected four out of five stars, perhaps because it is a thinky movie and I like that...

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...

It’s a staple of writing thrillers that the stakes and the difficulties for the protagonist must keep ratcheting up throughout the story....

Two quick knife thrusts skewering my gut, then the man in black leather twisted the knife and ran, but not before grabbing the McGuffin. ...

I got my start as a writer by writing for shared worlds—and I don’t mean writing fan fiction (for my opinions on copyright theft, see my...

I was a debater in college and I coached debate when I was in law school, both at The University of Chicago. While UC was primarily on...

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...

Despite the fact that I am heading off to my 34th GenCon shortly and that I was the world's top-ranked player of Classic RPGA tournaments...