by admin | Sep 29, 2018 | Books, Movies, S/F, Society
Recently, I saw one of the Avengers movies on TV, and started thinking about all the Marvel Universe movies, and kept coming back to the Big Question. No not “Is there a god?” or “What is the meaning of life?” or even “What the fuck happened to bring about the 2016...
by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Books, Writing
This is an important question, both for writers and for readers. The anti hero has gain prominence lately, and there are a lot of reasons for that. But it’s less a question of “should my protagonist be flawed?” and more a question of “how flawed should my protagonist...
by admin | Jun 9, 2018 | mental health, Writing
Anthony Bourdain’s death hit me hard. He was an inspiration to me, through his writing and his television shows, making an impression on both my writing and my outlook on life. As a writer, I have to say his prose connected with me on many levels. His style was...
by admin | Jun 3, 2018 | Books, Writing
Saw the new Deadpool movie recently. Loved it. Recently, I read a discussion about it, and one of the points brought up was the use of tropes and cliches, and was it enough to be self aware and hang a lampshade on the trope, or if it still counted as lazy...
by admin | May 3, 2018 | History, war, Writing
We constantly hear that we should write what we know. But there are plenty of things we don’t really know, but we write about anyway, like casting spells or space flight or fighting dragons. Now I’ve written before about ways to tap into your own experiences to add a...
