April 2011
2 posts
What A Tool
I want to be a writer. I just don’t have the right tools.
This old Gateway PC isn’t going to cut it as my word processor. I need something else, something more organic. I need to get out and observe people while I write.
Okay, I’ve got some swanky pencils and some high quality, spiral bound note books. Now I can write any time, any where. Damn, these pencils brake faster...
Ambient Electronic Album Generator
Someone make this album. I won’t even charge royalties.
Album Title : Light Emitting Diode
Track Listing:
Uncertainty Principal
Krypton 85
Miasma
Pattern Recognition
Kuiper Belt Blues
Radial Lover
Xenon
In The Bromide
U R W31_1_(0/\/\3
Like...
People don’t drop like a sacks of potatoes.
Realizations don’t hit you like a freight train.
Your heart doesn’t beat like thunder.
You are not focused like a laser beam.
Her smile doesn’t light up like the sun.
Eyes don’t sparkle like diamonds.
Some people are good at writing similes.
It took me 20 minutes to come up with these rather bad ones.
Imagine if I...
March 2011
6 posts
Outline Fever
I get lost in the outline. Outlining is a concept that was drilled into me from childhood and I don’t really know how to do it. I get writer’s block before I get a word of my story down. I sweat it too much.
Outlines work for some, well probably most writers. That doesn’t mean it is the only way to start a book does it? Do I need to have every scene and set piece figured...
Sucker Punch Review
I liked it.
Do Not Fear The Logician
The logician is a type of person who likes to point out the flaws in any story. A person who likes to ridicule characters when they make less than perfect decisions. This person will question the scientific accuracy of any concept whether they are familiar with the subject or not. The logician is unable to enjoy a movie, book or television show unless it passes a sequence of validity tests in...
If You Are Like Me
If you are like me then you have ideas in your head. Only in your head. You have tried to turn these ideas into pages of text and have failed to see it through. Time after time.
If you are like me then somewhere around the end of your first chapter is when the feeling of anxiety swells up in your chest and nausea tingles in your abdomen.
If you are like me you read your first chapter and...
