PitchWars’ Pimping o’ the Bio
In which I #pimpmybio for #pitchwars and look forward to meeting new writing friends.
Read more "PitchWars’ Pimping o’ the Bio"“Write What You Know”
It is some of the oldest in the book on writing. Write what you know. Or, occasionally, Write what you don’t know you know. In fact, this advice is so ubiquitous that it is often derided and ignored as being too simplistic. I’m here today to argue that it is the most difficult and heartbreaking writing advice you can […]
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Holden is not NAIVE. If he can survive knowing just pieces of a story after watching thousands of people die, he’s not f*cking human.
Read more "On “The Expanse” and Being Human"Why I Stayed
There is only one kind of abusive relationship that society insists the abusee remain in for the rest of their lives.
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Everywhere we look, we find people of privilege saying, ‘Look, it’s really not as bad as you want to make it out to be. I mean, I’m hardly affected at all by this; why don’t you just calm down and really think about how you may have brought this upon yourself?’
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True Evil, it seems, only exists as long as we cannot justify its existence to ourselves.
Read more "The Only Evil is the Evil We Cannot Justify; Or, Yet Another DC vs Marvel Discussion"Weapon of Mass Destruction (370 Words) #flashfiction
“Tell me a story.” “Okay. Have you heard the one about the Humans?” “No. Tell me that one.” “All right. A long time ago, on a planet far, far away, there was a species called Humans. They were not very strong, or very pretty, but they were very smart. They could see patterns that were […]
Read more "Weapon of Mass Destruction (370 Words) #flashfiction"The Pervasive Myth of Evil
Yesterday, I talked about how comic books often use madness as a shortcut to let the audience know a character is evil. After discussing the issue with a few close, extremely intelligent humans of my acquaintance, I’ve come to recognise the deeper issue. Human beings, as a race, are absurdly optimistic and naive. Why does every […]
Read more "The Pervasive Myth of Evil"Batman V Superman: Awesome Story, Troublous World
I saw Batman V Superman this past week, and I very much enjoyed it. So many of the complaints I’ve heard about the movie didn’t apply to my experience of it – I didn’t care about pre-used storylines, inconsistent character portrayal (I took off my novelist hat that afternoon), or Ben Affleck. I didn’t care […]
Read more "Batman V Superman: Awesome Story, Troublous World"Your Novel: An (Actually) Interesting PhD Thesis
The biggest difference between your novel and a PhD thesis is that more people will want to read your novel…and, in theory, you might get paid with real money for your novel, which makes your project a little bit more financially viable than the average doctoral thesis.
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