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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Nov 15, 2013
- 5 min
From Gaming to Adventures, Stories, and Novels on Demand
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 ...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Sep 15, 2013
- 4 min
The Pros and Cons of Novellas
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 p...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Aug 13, 2013
- 5 min
Did I Play in the World's First Role-Playing Game EVER?
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...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Aug 6, 2013
- 5 min
Umbrellas, Pedestrian Etiquette, and Un-Needful Things
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....
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Jul 21, 2013
- 5 min
Collateral Damage: Die Hard, Burn Notice, Star Trek Into Darkness, Comic Superheroes, and Magnum P.I
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 fa...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Jun 11, 2013
- 6 min
Writers are Suspicious Folk
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 ...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- May 24, 2013
- 5 min
The DC-ification of Iron Man
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 be...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- May 17, 2013
- 6 min
Turning Your Book Into an Audio Book
I do plenty of readings at writing and genre conventions, book signings, local author nights, and the like of excerpts from my books or s...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- May 9, 2013
- 4 min
Idioms for Idiots
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 fo...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Feb 5, 2013
- 3 min
Medicines Aren't The Only Things That Interact
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 f...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Dec 23, 2012
- 2 min
A Gift from the Past
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...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Nov 2, 2012
- 4 min
Everything Is Complicated
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...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Oct 17, 2012
- 5 min
Episodic Writing vs. Mythic Arcs
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...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Apr 28, 2012
- 2 min
A Reading That Was Almost Too Successful
Credible Dialogue Makes Reading a Bit Too Successful: A fellow in my writers group is doing a documentary on such groups and has interv...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Mar 28, 2012
- 6 min
The Set-Up
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...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Feb 11, 2012
- 5 min
Make New Mistakes
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 Gener...
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Donald J. Bingle, Writer on Demand
- Jan 22, 2012
- 5 min
My Name is Don and I'm a Control Freak
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 t...
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