Scott D. Parker: Writer

Well, here we are again. It’s November and tomorrow kicks off National Novel Writing Month. It’s a fun exercise in which you write a 50,000-...

Two years ago, Mike Flanagan delivered The Haunting of Hill House, a horror show with a great emotional center I never saw coming . Now, in ...

I think it's common knowledge that a good rule of thumb for reviewing your own work is to read it aloud. I do it all the time. I find ...

  (Imagine my surprise yesterday when I finished this review and went to post it on DoSomeDamage ...only to discover my fellow author, Beau ...

How do you know when something you’ve written or planned out is good? That’s my question for the weekend, folks. Thanks! Okay, I’m kidding, ...

“Just watch the first episode and let me know what you think.” That was the request my wife made about Glitch, a TV show out of Australia no...

Like many a wordsmith, I've tried multiple ways to get a story out of my head and onto paper. I've outlined, planned, and written st...

 A couple things occurred to me on Thursday when I heard the new Bruce Springsteen song, "Letter to You," from his forthcoming alb...

Should I or shouldn't I re-read a completed manuscript before picking it back up again to work on it? I debated with myself for longer t...

It’s the little things in this movie that really stood out to me. Oh, and the big, goofy grin plastered on my face nearly the entire time. 1...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about watching the Amazon Prime TV series Bosch . Based on Michael Connelly’s novel series, there are now six seaso...