DONALD J. BINGLE

I'm not much of a fan of umbrellas. It's not that I don't own one. In fact, I have one which is more than thirty years old at this point....

Just watched A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard 5) a few days ago. This isn't a movie review column, so I won't go into why, despite the...

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 confess, I didn't read a lot of comic books before my college days (where my dorm had a comic book library), but on the great divide...

I do plenty of readings at writing and genre conventions, book signings, local author nights, and the like of excerpts from my books or...

Truth told, I don't like to call anyone an idiot (except for the occasional bad driver), but I'm trying to be catchier with the titles...

I don't drive long-distance much anymore. Days are too precious and fuel too expensive to drive to Florida or Colorado, when I can just...

My writing friends, As far as I can remember, the first creative thing I wrote was when I was eleven. My mom and dad and aunt and uncle...

So here we sit, just a few days before the Presidential election, and it looks like it is going to be a close one. Now, this is a writing...

Now, I'm not a writer for television (though I'm available--call me, really), but I'm an avid consumer of television and I'm a writer, so...

Whenever somebody's car breaks down, they say it happened at the worst possible time, but we know that's not really true. Sure, it always...

Credible Dialogue Makes Reading a Bit Too Successful: A fellow in my writers group is doing a documentary on such groups and has...

Some people say there are no new ideas in writing. I disagree--this is the kind of lazy statement made when someone sees/reads The Hunger...

With a title like that, I'd better spellcheck this blog ... More than a decade ago I spent about five years working in-house as a...

They say that recognizing that you have a problem is the first step in getting help. Screw that. I am a control freak and I like it...

There are plenty of games out there that kill people. Those of you who read my my recent blog post on “The Future of Gaming” or who...

When you really think about it, the demise of sports was inevitable. Athletes were destined to become extinct; the poor...

Lots of the people who read this blog or follow me on Facebook or Twitter are writers--and most of the rest are pretty avid readers. Some...

Tis the shopping season, which immediately precedes the giving season, so I suspect that many of you clicking onto this blog are...

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...