It’s Thursday morning and that means it’s time for the weekly update on how I’m doing with the writing of my forthcoming book, “Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer.”

Well, I didn’t get anything done this week! I got busy with the blog and other things, so I’m going to put up three more paragraphs from Chapter Ten and hopefully we’ll be up to Chapter Eleven!

I did get a new video filmed for my YouTube Channel with a new video. The video is part of my “Spiteful Stories” and this deals with how we were putting the last issue of fishwrap together in 2001 and then September 11th happened.

I tell my personal September 11th story in this video which can be seen by clicking here or on the photo below.

Tomorrow and Saturday, I’ll be posting a “Best of MBIP” link on Twitter and facecrack, so check those out if you follow me on either one or both of those social media platforms.

Below are three additional teaser paragraphs from Chapter Ten of, “Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer.”

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1993-1994: Freelance Writing and the Start of Fishwrap (Part II)

All of a sudden, I had an idea. It would be fun to make a publication that ridicules all of these magazines and the editors and writers that put them out. I imagined It wouldn’t be a magazine, it could be a fanzine.

Fanzines were really big in the mid ’90’s, they were basically personal publications people put together by themselves either by hand or on a computer and then output them at copy shops, stapled them and either handed them out to friends or in some cases sold them at stores. Some record stores had fanzine sections and even mainstream stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders carried certain fanzines.

There was a store in the East Village called See Hear and they specialized in fanzines and they were the biggest fanzine store in New York and probably the world. There were fanzines on about any subject you could think of including lots of music fanzines, movie fanzines and specialized fanzines like one called “Murder Can Be Fun,” that was all about murders and serial killers. They were usually done by one or just a few people who were obsessed with their fanzine’s theme.

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There will be a new MBIP Sunday Links blog here on this coming Sunday, October 6th, so I’ll see you all back here in two short days!

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Related Posts: Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer: Part One, Two, Three. Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten.

Part II…

Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!