Nadd Wellgreen

Biography

Nadd is a semi-retired technical writer who, after writing thousands of pages of user documentation over the span of a quarter century for Silicon Valley's high tech industry, is at last turning to the more fun fare of poetry and fiction. He was born in the Hoosier State, grew up in the Silver State, and currently resides in the Golden State.

Smashwords Interview

What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Promise of coffee.
What is your writing process?
1. Allow the project to become my subconscious lurker as I go about everything else. It watches, it ruminates, it stews.

2. Read lots of whatever I want around the topic.

3. After a few days, jot down whatever insane sound bytes have been forming in my head.

4. Begin knitting the soundbytes into a narrative with structure.

5. Continue with 1-4 until I have a standalone, readable entity ready to throw into the world.
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Nadd Wellgreen online

Twitter: @NaddWellgreen
Facebook: Facebook profile

Books

Will Cosby Guide to Casual Dating
Price: Free! Words: 880. Language: English. Published: July 21, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
(4.00 from 1 review)
Short humor on an unfunny topic. This is a parody based on statements made in the recently unsealed deposition.
Romeo and Juliet before the Mask
Price: Free! Words: 1,480. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2015 . Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Short vignettes that show Romeo and Juliet before they meet, and Rosaline's key role in their meeting. (See this review! https://berryherwithpoems.com/2020/04/20/wherefore-art-thou-rosaline/)
State My Name
Price: Free! Words: 2,190. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American, Nonfiction » Entertainment » Games, puzzles, & brain twisters » Quizzes
(4.00 from 1 review)
US state guessing game. Identify each of the states based on their nicknames.
Zombie Squirrels
Price: Free! Words: 810. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2015 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Horror » Undead
(5.00 from 1 review)
Two non-breathing poems: Zombie Squirrels - Noon-time walkers dissuaded from their perambulations by the furry undead Zombie Ballerinas - Dancers with deadly good looks

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Smashwords book reviews by Nadd Wellgreen

  • I Don't Wanna Be with You on July 03, 2015

    Read through some of the sample. Kinda like this. The language flows smoothly, speaks with sincerity, and I can follow it. And I wasn't immediately immersed into some sort of subjective imagery to decipher like a Gordian knot. Although I'm a bigot for the more traditional forms (haven't even managed to get through Whitman's "Leaves Of Grass" yet), the lyrical quality of this was enough to keep my interest.
  • Guilty Man Not Ready to Die on July 03, 2015

    If the intent was to remind me of my mortality, I mourn for the time I expended on the reminder. Was hoping for some gut-wrenching deathbed wailing with some spiritual hooks, or perhaps a wry take on how meaningless it all is--but this read more like a pamphlet on a community center bulletin board. All I got out of this is that the dude should feel bad about being human and probably can't wait to finish croaking.
  • Let’s Stop Bullying For All on July 03, 2015

    Like it.
  • Of Concrete and Glass on July 07, 2015

    Nicely lyrical and the language flows smoothly. A little scant on the punctuation but of course that's a liberty of free form. :-)
  • The Poetic Genius: Grand Slam Flows on July 12, 2015

    I so wanted to bitch-slap this just because of the over-the-top book title and author handle. But this reads to me like hip-hop album lyrics, in which case the bravado fits the genre. And I was laughing once I hit the padded "D" section and kept reading. The rhyme and rhythm seem overall tighter than of most contemporary poetry and I can hear a heavy backbeat while reading. And the content is mostly accessible to me (can't say I get everything, but that's poetry). Really nice stuff.