By: WDL,
on 5/20/2008
I'm not going to lie to you. I worry about my hair not staying put. I have tried every pomade on planet earth, and finally, I find this. And while I don't exactly look like the target market, pictured on the lid of the tin...according to their website, 20% of their market is made up of folks like me! People who touch themselves when they think of Dan Kloeffler! OK, not really. But I really
By: Jason Boog,
on 11/28/2007
Old time radio drama is the future.
In my novel, I'm working with the hardboiled, over-dramatic, and image-driven narration style that old time radio dramas evoked. If you listen to these shows on your iPod, it's intimate as a little kid leaning against a radio receiver. It's a style that all fledgling writers should learn for web writing.
If you want to experiment, the time has never been better. Ed Champion is working on A Grand Radio Project. Today LitPark interviews Chuck Collins, author of The Radio Murders--a podcast set of novels about a grim radio station. Collins took his dayjob as a radio broadcaster and turned it into mysterious gold.
Finally, over the last two years I've written about countless pulp fiction productions from The Great Hardboiled Radio List to my I Was A Communist for the FBI essay to this this videoblogged interview with pulp fiction lover Paul Malmont. Read your work out-loud, let's go back to the gripping, stylish days of radio drama.
