gregmillerwrites

@gregmillerwrites@zirk.us

I'm a #writer who helps writers write #memoir #comedy #NonFiction #books #scripts, who loves #coffee #history #research #maps #VintageGraphics #CivilRights (but not for corporations) #archaeology #music #patterns. Formerly #LA #NYC #NYU #CBC #Uncabaret #TheKitchen #CollegeOfWooster #ElizabethSeeger #Fieldston #EthicalCulture, Driving Instructor, Bike Messenger, Sweathog. Currently in #AnnArbor, #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction about the #AmericanRevolution.
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gregmillerwrites, to random

I'm going off the grid for a week. Please enjoy imagining me doing whatever you’d like to imagine I’m doing.

gregmillerwrites, to art

A taste of the amazing room full of Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Art.

In this panel, a worker in overalls gazes down on the green plants. Tremendous machines rise behind him.
A wide shot of a full wall, crammed full of images; workers on two floors of an assembly line, machinery snaking up and around them.

gregmillerwrites, to california

Articulate clouds over Palm Springs, California, c. 2005

Desert palms are silhouetted against enormous swirling pink and blue clouds.
Giant pink and blue clouds in the sky above a silhouetted treelike of date palms. In the foreground, a hedge of scrubby desert bushes and a large ritual mound of rocks in a clearing.

gregmillerwrites, to Writers

These dozen stories almost always work in commercial fiction, film & TV. Did I miss any?

  1. Rom-Com
  2. Road Trip
  3. Gotta Sing, Dance, Sport, etc.
  4. Rag-Tag Rebels (Scrappy Underdogs)
  5. Killing Nazis (Righteous Revenge)
  6. Rags to Riches

I ran out of post space; for six more, see
https://othernetwork.com/2023/08/29/stories-that-almost-always-work/

@amwriting @writers @writingcommunity

gregmillerwrites, to nyc

The last seedy dregs of Times Square, circa 1980.
If someone doesn't use 'Tango Palace' as the title of a hard-boiled novel, I'll have to.

#MonochromeMonday
#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #MondayMemories #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork #BW #BlackAndWhite #BlancEtNoir #Noir #FilmNoir
#UrbanPhotography #Street #reflections #Reflektion #puddlereflections #waterpuddle #puddle #Signs #StreetPhotography #Analog #SLR #TriX

gregmillerwrites, to Bloomscrolling

gregmillerwrites, to random

The sky at sunset from 10,000 feet.

gregmillerwrites, to Podcast

I recommend the chilling but riveting story of Clarence Thomas in the Slow Burn podcast, available here or wherever fine podcasts are streamed.
https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s8/becoming-justice-thomas

gregmillerwrites, to Typography

If your initials are T.W., and you're into Art Nouveau graphics, today is your lucky day! I just stumbled across this monogram from "The Works of GJ Whyte-Melville", pub. 1898, via the British Library.

#Typographics #Typography #Typographie #lettering #BW #BlackAndWhite #BlancEtNoir #VintageGraphics #ArtNouveau #PublicDomain #Illustration

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157638733975756

gregmillerwrites, to random

A house warming gift, c. June 2020 from https://ronsglass.blog

gregmillerwrites, to tv

The Detroit Writing Room is an awesome organization that runs all kinds of events and programs for writers of all ages. I'll be doing an interactive workshop for them on WRITING FOR FILM & TV in Detroit, on Thursday, September 28 · 7 - 9pm EDT - https://www.detroitwritingroom.com/events

@amwriting @writers @writingcommunity

gregmillerwrites, to nyc

BOND. Not James Bond; BOND International Casino on Broadway, c. 1981. Site of The Kitchen's 10th Anniversary K10 festival, and other nefarious activities unknown.

A dark street scene. In the foreground, two males confer, pure silhouettes. Behind them, the rain-soaked street is illuminated by the sign from BOND, and marquees beyond, too distant and bleached to be read.
The BOND sign on the right, is small, and seen in broader context. The rainy street in the foreground is empty, but it is about to be crowded with a street full of cars, whose headlights blare from the left side of the frame.

gregmillerwrites, to photography

Silk worms fill a window in rural China.

gregmillerwrites, to Futurology

Seen through the rain-streaked windshield, the restaurant is reduced to a line of big red dots with white centers, streaky lines of white, gold, red, and green, that look like ornate script.

gregmillerwrites, to streetphotography

gregmillerwrites, to photography

EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

#MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #BlancEtNoir #Photography #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography #building #reflections #Reflektion #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

gregmillerwrites, to Bread

Fresh olive bread!

gregmillerwrites, to LosAngeles

If anyone is interested in the history of independent theater in LA, this website is a brilliant archive of the Back Alley Theatre, a creative space that flourished from 1979-1989 in the San Fernando Valley, a region thought to be so culturally bereft, it was the butt of jokes. (Disclaimer: the theater was operated by my father and stepmother and I helped build sets.)

https://backalleytheatre.org

gregmillerwrites, to photography

#B&W -X

gregmillerwrites,

@ianRobinson I only ever saw it’s sign from afar.

gregmillerwrites, to illustration

Illustration from "Mohammedanism and Other Religions of Mediterranean Countries" by GT Bethany, c. 1892
https://archive.org/details/mohammedanismoth00bettrich/page/312/mode/2up

gregmillerwrites, to random

A stained glass window throws light onto the floor of a church in Brittany.

gregmillerwrites, to philosophy

If you like bloody revenge, a laconic, indefatigable hero, and miraculous, mystical happenings in the mythical Old West, then I think you'll share my opinion; "The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu" by Tom Lin kicks ass. [CW: sex, violence, drug use, racists]

#BookReview #BookReviews #MagicalRealism #Western #WildWest #HistoricalFiction #USHistory #AmericanHistory #19thCentury #Fantasy #forReaders #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-thousand-crimes-of-ming-tsu-by-tom-lin/

gregmillerwrites, to Bloomscrolling

Eryngos!

gregmillerwrites, to illustration

An illustration from a menu, featured in "Les menus & programmes illustrés"

https://archive.org/details/lesmenusprogramm00mail/page/220/mode/2up

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