DONALD J. BINGLE

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...

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...