David Lane WilliamsNov 5, 20183 minA Grandfather...In TrainingI recently learned I will be a grandfather in six months, whereupon I immediately started planning how to win the coveted “World’s...
David Lane WilliamsOct 11, 20182 minSophie Goes HomeThe following was a micro-short or "flash fiction" piece I wrote some years back. Hope it means something to you. Half a lifetime ago,...
David Lane WilliamsSep 7, 20187 minFirst Chapter of Badge in a ShadowboxWord docs don't translate here. Please forgive the formatting, and enjoy the read. Chapter One The front window of Aye Candy displayed a...
David Lane WilliamsSep 7, 20187 minFirst Chapter of Snake Oil on Snow ConesAs always, sorry for the formatting glitches. Word docs don't always translate well here. Happy reading. Callie had always been one to...
David Lane WilliamsAug 31, 20184 min5 Strategies to Prevent School ShootingsThis 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...
David Lane WilliamsAug 4, 20183 minObits, Purpose, and Camping with GodThis 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...
David Lane WilliamsJul 11, 20186 minLet'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...
David Lane WilliamsJun 1, 20181 minThe Twenty Year Overnight Success PlanThe last several weeks have been spent producing and directing a short film called Bee Sting and a Horse Kick. The dark comedy is based...
David Lane WilliamsApr 11, 20184 minDo 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,...
David Lane WilliamsMar 1, 20182 minPreventing School ShootingsMy second non-fiction book, Textbooks, Not Targets: Preventing School Shootings in Your Community, went under contract two months ago...
David Lane WilliamsFeb 2, 20185 minWhat 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...
David Lane WilliamsJan 9, 20183 minAnd 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...
David Lane WilliamsDec 6, 20174 minWhy I Joined a Women's Fiction GroupI was a single parent for much of my sons’ lives. Through their teenage years the three of us lived decidedly as bachelors, even going...
David Lane WilliamsNov 2, 20172 minWhy 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...
David Lane WilliamsSep 10, 20172 minThe B SideMy 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...
David Lane WilliamsJul 20, 20176 minSheriff ClantonThis 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...
David Lane WilliamsJun 4, 20172 minAs to ProcessFor 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...
David Lane WilliamsMay 2, 201722 minCrosses to BearCrosses to Bear is a compilation of the scenes involving Callie, our heroine in Snake Oil on Snow Cones, and her adoptive father, the...
David Lane WilliamsApr 10, 20178 minBadge in a Shadowbox, Chapter 1--Alternative VersionI've gotten feedback from two reliable sources that a pivotal scene in "Badge" should come much earlier in the book. This requires that...
David Lane WilliamsMar 29, 20178 minBadge in a ShadowboxBadge 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 ...