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December 16, 2015
I just watched the Prequel Trilogy for the first time in several years, in an effort to get myself ready for seeing The Force Awakens tomorrow. My first takeaway was that Episodes II and III aren’t nearly as bad as I remember them. So that’s neat. The next big ticket item that stuck in my head was just how ridiculous the political process works in the Prequels. I’m not alone in this, because, there have been several artic...
September 23, 2015
Unless you have been unconscious for the last few days, you've probably noticed that the media is currently overrun by news of this huge asshole guy Martin Shkreli purchasing and hiking up the price of an anti-parasitic drug called Daraprim. Ultimately, he and his company Turing Pharmaceuticals backed down in the face of massive public uproar, as did the other asshole guy who just did the same thing with the Tuberculosis medic...
August 25, 2015
With revisions coming along nicely and a publication date almost set, I've gone ahead and knocked out a description for Toxic. This'll be up on the Amazon page as soon as it goes live. Feedback is appreciated, so let me know what you think! Does this sound like something you'd want to read?
"SunBright Naturals has just created the best-selling weight loss supplement of all time. Customers flock to the shelves to get their han...
July 23, 2015
20,000 words into this thing, and I'm both flabbergasted and just plain aghasted at my own stamina. My progress is both lackluster and spectacular, depending on how I'm feeling at any particular moment. Writing is like that. It's a constant flux of self-degradation, loneliness, pure elation, willpower wrangling, and guilt. It's hard to really describe the writing process to someone who's never sat down to crap out a book. Poss...
July 9, 2015
Every writer these days has to tell a zombie story. It's the rules. That kind of thing is insanely popular, and there are a lot of different books, movies, tv shows, etc. that have characters running the zombie gamut. So, even though it's usually a solid financial idea to jump on creative bandwagons (I hear there's this thing called economics [which I do not condone], a field containing buzzwords like "supply," and even "deman...
June 30, 2015
A resume' is pure turd breakfast; it’s a series of buzzwords and meaningless expressions.
Phony feng-shui arguments abound about the use of white space.
You must use the exact same words as everyone else,
but somehow be just different enough.
Unique and distinctive is key, but
irregular or unconventional is a death sentence.
And for God’s sake, don’t be too wordy.
Use some words that are made out of something else --...
June 24, 2015
An amazing thing happened the other day -- a Steam game left Early Access and did a full release. I've never seen this happen and I'm frankly unsure of how to act in my life and social circles now. Mostly because this was sort of an unprecedented event, and also because I picked up the game in question and it's steadily ruining my life. In fact, Kerbal Space Program is probably the most satisfying game I've played in several y...
April 19, 2015
Writers seem to have this thing where they write a lot. I don't really know what that's about -- it seems kind of silly to me, but for whatever reason, if a writer isn't writing anything, they generally aren't getting paid. In order to secure a living in this silly manner, it’s important to first deal with the basic functions of writing. To do so, you need to have a few handy tools at your disposal. One of those is a keyboard....
April 12, 2015
It's Watchathon Week in Comcast's broadcasting kingdom, and I just happen to be visiting at my parents' house. My Dad likes to watch a lot of TV and considers it sort of a bonding experience, and I never really get to channel surf much in my regular life, so the other day we decided to take advantage of the free premium programming.
I actually picked True Detective out of the bunch, so I feel more than partially responsible...