A Grandfather...In Training
I recently learned I will be a grandfather in six months, whereupon I immediately started planning how to win the coveted “World’s...
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David Lane Williams
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Sophie Goes Home
The following was a micro-short or "flash fiction" piece I wrote some years back. Hope it means something to you. Half a lifetime ago,...
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David Lane Williams
- Sep 7, 2018
- 7 min
First Chapter of Badge in a Shadowbox
Word docs don't translate here. Please forgive the formatting, and enjoy the read. Chapter One The front window of Aye Candy displayed a...
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David Lane Williams
- Sep 7, 2018
- 7 min
First Chapter of Snake Oil on Snow Cones
As always, sorry for the formatting glitches. Word docs don't always translate well here. Happy reading. Callie had always been one to...
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David Lane Williams
- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
5 Strategies to Prevent School Shootings
This is an article I wrote that first appeared in Mother's Circle back in March (Thank you Leah DeCesare). I'm posting it here today in...
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David Lane Williams
- Aug 4, 2018
- 3 min
Obits, Purpose, and Camping with God
This coming weekend I'll give a eulogy for an old friend and mentor. Bob came into my life when I was flailing around in an angry teen...
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David Lane Williams
- Jul 11, 2018
- 6 min
Let's Do a Short Story!
I looked back and realized I haven't posted anything of a narrative nature in months...months! Dang near unforgivable, so let's get on it...
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David Lane Williams
- Jun 1, 2018
- 1 min
The Twenty Year Overnight Success Plan
The last several weeks have been spent producing and directing a short film called Bee Sting and a Horse Kick. The dark comedy is based...
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David Lane Williams
- Apr 11, 2018
- 4 min
Do Book Trailers Work?
We’ve all been in a theater, watching trailers for upcoming films and then leaning over to our accomplice…er, companion to whisper,...
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David Lane Williams
- Mar 1, 2018
- 2 min
Preventing School Shootings
My second non-fiction book, Textbooks, Not Targets: Preventing School Shootings in Your Community, went under contract two months ago...
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David Lane Williams
- Feb 2, 2018
- 5 min
What I'm Working On Right Now...because so many of you are losing sleep wondering.
I spoke in a previous post about my method of using screenplay formatting as a skeleton upon which to build full novels. There are dozens...
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David Lane Williams
- Jan 9, 2018
- 3 min
And then that happened...
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of my last chemo and radiation treatment for an aggressive cancer that had taken up residence in...
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David Lane Williams
- Dec 6, 2017
- 4 min
Why I Joined a Women's Fiction Group
I was a single parent for much of my sons’ lives. Through their teenage years the three of us lived decidedly as bachelors, even going...
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David Lane Williams
- Nov 2, 2017
- 2 min
Why Film?
We have a lot of drop-in visitors since moving to Albuquerque because I40 runs right through the middle of town as our friends and family...
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David Lane Williams
- Sep 10, 2017
- 2 min
The B Side
My little sister got married last weekend to a guy she met nearly forty years ago at a church camp. They’d both married previously, and...
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David Lane Williams
- Jul 20, 2017
- 6 min
Sheriff Clanton
This go-round I thought I'd plug in a short story I wrote some years back about a fictional small-town sheriff on a traffic stop. Sheriff...
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David Lane Williams
- Jun 4, 2017
- 2 min
As to Process
For this post I thought it might be interesting to speak about my writing process a bit. One of the techniques I use when writing prose...
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David Lane Williams
- May 2, 2017
- 22 min
Crosses to Bear
Crosses to Bear is a compilation of the scenes involving Callie, our heroine in Snake Oil on Snow Cones, and her adoptive father, the...
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David Lane Williams
- Apr 10, 2017
- 8 min
Badge in a Shadowbox, Chapter 1--Alternative Version
I've gotten feedback from two reliable sources that a pivotal scene in "Badge" should come much earlier in the book. This requires that...
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David Lane Williams
- Mar 29, 2017
- 8 min
Badge in a Shadowbox
Badge in a Shadowbox is the first novel in a series I'm currently pitching to agents. The hero is Detective Lane Watters, a good cop who ...
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