Skip to content

Stories sell - Get the book

Matthew Dicks
  • About
  • Stories
    • Books
    • Blog
    • Articles
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • Success Stories
  • Consulting
    • Learn More
    • Current/Previous Clients
  • Speaking
  • Connect
    • Contact
    • Events
  • Other Things
    • Storyworthy
    • Speak Up
  • Toggle website search
  • About
  • Stories
    • Books
    • Blog
    • Articles
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • Success Stories
  • Consulting
    • Learn More
    • Current/Previous Clients
  • Speaking
  • Connect
    • Contact
    • Events
  • Other Things
    • Storyworthy
    • Speak Up
  • Toggle website search
Read more about the article Inaccessible and annoying

Inaccessible and annoying

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 16, 2009
  • Post category:Books/Music/The Writing Process

My wife and I went to see Bob Dylan for our anniversary a couple of nights ago. As he stepped on stage, a booming voice declared him “the great American…

Continue ReadingInaccessible and annoying
Read more about the article Technology and my beginnings as a writer

Technology and my beginnings as a writer

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 15, 2009
  • Post category:Autobiography

It’s hard to remember a time when the internet didn’t exist, but for people my age, members of Generation X, I often think that we grew up at the perfect…

Continue ReadingTechnology and my beginnings as a writer
Read more about the article In stores at last!

In stores at last!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 14, 2009
  • Post category:SOMETHING MISSING Items

What a day. Something Missing hit the bookstores today, the fruition of a lifelong ambition of mine. It’s not often that a person has the opportunity to realize a dream that…

Continue ReadingIn stores at last!

Least favorite words

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 14, 2009
  • Post category:Words
  • Post comments:0 Comments

The Guardian reported on words most hated by a selection of English poets. These included redacted, pulchritude, and appall. My wife’s least favorite word is moist. It literally grosses her…

Continue ReadingLeast favorite words
Read more about the article One day to go…

One day to go…

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 13, 2009
  • Post category:SOMETHING MISSING Items

Something Missing was reviewed by the Free Lance Star in Fredericksburg, VA, today, and in glowing terms, and more than 75% of the readers in Amazon’s Vine program have given the…

Continue ReadingOne day to go…
Read more about the article “Something Missing” in the Boston Globe!

“Something Missing” in the Boston Globe!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 12, 2009
  • Post category:SOMETHING MISSING Items

It’s just two days from the release of Something Missing, and this morning the book received favorable mention in Jan Gardner’s Shelf Life column in the Boston Globe. Having grown…

Continue Reading“Something Missing” in the Boston Globe!
Read more about the article Guest review of SOMETHING MISSING

Guest review of SOMETHING MISSING

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 11, 2009
  • Post category:SOMETHING MISSING Items

A big thank you to Alan Bradley, author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, who was kind enough to write a guest review for Something Missing for…

Continue ReadingGuest review of SOMETHING MISSING
Read more about the article Star Trek: Coincidentally flawed

Star Trek: Coincidentally flawed

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 10, 2009
  • Post category:Film

In 1982 I wrote a letter to Steven Spielberg suggesting he hire me as the Common Sense Director for his movies. I explained that my role would be to point…

Continue ReadingStar Trek: Coincidentally flawed
Read more about the article “Something Missing” making a name for itself

“Something Missing” making a name for itself

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 10, 2009
  • Post category:SOMETHING MISSING Items

I found a few tidbits of good news regarding Something Missing as I surfed the web and combed through my email today: First, Something Missing was listed in Goodreads’ July newsletter…

Continue Reading“Something Missing” making a name for itself
Read more about the article Group descriptors

Group descriptors

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 9, 2009
  • Post category:Words

A murder of crows. A pride of lions. A gaggle of geese. All great ways of describing a group of animals. I recently heard a new one I liked a…

Continue ReadingGroup descriptors
  • Go to the previous page
  • 1
  • …
  • 808
  • 809
  • 810
  • 811
  • 812
  • 813
  • 814
  • …
  • 823
  • Go to the next page
[I write and publish every single day.]

Get your daily dose of stories

Sign up to conveniently receive my daily blog post from “Grin & Bare It” into your inbox daily.
Facebook X-twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram
© 2025 Matthew Dicks Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions