The Literary Gangster blog is an online space for me to practise getting wise to the craft of writing. It’s about bothering to learn one’s craft. It shares #gangstersuccess and encourages me to #daretowrite. It’s about writing to #pleaseyourself with the possible chance of pleasing someone else and it may even help someone else #getwise.
It’s a space where I wax and wane over the craft of writing. Sometimes I’m full and whole and bright, and other times I’m the sneaking, smiling Cheshire cat moon.
The Literary Gangster is about waxing wise to writing.
Enjoy these bite sized treats of microfiction and literary musings.
Howl over them if you need to.
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Tracie Lark aka The Literary Gangster
TLG does not earn money from this blog. All pictures are used from creative commons with permission from Flickr, or are personal photos. TLG is a dotcom site and has an extravagant theme because Traciegila paid for some essence of professionalism. All work belongs to Tracie Lark aka Traciegila aka The Literary Gangster except in the case where a guest author has been named. Please ask permission if you wish to publish any of the works on this site however you do not not need permission to share them 🙂 Peace out, TLG.
The Literary Gangster 
There’s an award for you on my blog – http://www.mandyevebarnett.com Have fun!
Hi Mandy, thankyou so very much!
I’m not sure what I’m most impressed by.
The cool name and blog, or the fact you’ve travelled back in time 😉
Haha! Thanks.
Have no concept of time and you will not feel lost in it – TLG.
Yeah, I just quoted myself.
In fact it was your name that impressed me. I do like a good pun. And my favourite animal is a lion. And I like do a lot of hangin’ around. And writing. Sums life up really.
Thanks, I quite like it too.
I was referring to the October 2013 date line 😉
Back to the future. This is why time makes you lost.
One for the Lion who is a stickler for detail and whom every Literary Gangster needs in their gang, cheers!
loving your work, sistagirl! xoxo
Thanks Carms, my awesome writing mentor and brilliant artist!!!! Here’s a plug for you!!
http://www.carmeldebreuil.com
The shortest forms are so often the most fun! I’ll enjoy watching you at work here.
Cheers!
Kathryn
Hi Kathyrn! Thanks for the support! Yes, it’s the compact ones that get me excited! Cheers!
Thank you for the follow, it’s very encouraging.
Terry
“About” pages are usually pretty dreary (my own being a great example of such dreariness) but yours is excellent. 100 word stories are great fun – I’m not up into the thousands but I’m definitely into double figures 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and following my blog recently, very much appreciated. Will look forward to reading more posts on your site.
Haha! Thanks Nik. The hardest reader to please is myself so I have to leave entertaining messages and stories for me to laugh at later on 🙂 I also look forward to reading more on your site.
Hi, Traci. Great to meet you! ❤
You too Colleen!
If one is to be a gangster, without a doubt, that is the only kind to be!
Thank you for following one of my blogs. Now back to getting acquainted with yours.
Thank you! We all have a little literary gangster inside of us 🙂 And now, me to yours!
I read your last post and wanted to comment. But no comment box is there. 🙈😔👀
Oh dear will have a look!
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Okay I’ve changed a setting! Thanks for bringing that to my attention 🙂
Xx
Glad to have you a member of the writing community. I’m glad you found my little corner of the world. Thank you for following my blog and welcome to the fence jumpers. I look forward to our conversations. @sheilamgood at Cow Pasture Chronicles
You have some really useful and interesting things on your blog, thank you! I’ve now followed you on twitter too 🙂 TLG
Thanks for visiting 🙂
Love your description of what your blig is about. I love writing too and experimenting with writing
For me to practice getting wise you say… From what I can see, or more to the point, what I have read of yours so far, wise you are now or if not yet there, you can’t be far enough to make a noticeable difference. I do like your style, and your very smart and very wise economy of words. Words the ought ne’er be wasted. As I said, wise you are now! Great stuff and most enjoyable.