Tag: Writing
Posted on February 5, 2023
The Infinite Variabilities of Taste
Taste is a funny concept. You can have good taste or bad, acquired taste or popular. The one thing we all have in common is we each have our own taste, be that for food, media, or people. …
Updated on February 5, 2023
ChatGPT, So Hot Right Now
“A wise man can get more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian They’ve done it. They went and ruined my writing career before it ever had a chance, and they …
Posted on January 22, 2023
Editing Step 1: Recon
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick I wonder if there are writers out in the world who prefer editing to writing. If so, maybe they can scoop up some …
Posted on January 15, 2023
New Year, Who Dis?
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford A novel I recently read had a great line about forgiveness. One of the fictional cultures had a practice of stating how one would make amends …
Posted on October 10, 2022
Story Snafus: Plot Armor
One of the unfortunate side effects of learning how to write is that some of those lessons stick and bleed into how you view media. These range from the mundane (sentence structure, slight character or plot inconsistencies), the …
Posted on September 11, 2022
A Short Repaste
I struggle with long sentences. Speaking them, writing them, thinking them. Trying to limit my verbosity ends poorly. So here is my nth attempt to do so. Each sentence here will be chopped in half. I warn you …
Updated on September 4, 2022
Lightyear: To Infinity, but Not Quite Beyond
I am a huge fan of science fiction, anything involving the concept of “rangers,” and cats. Pixar’s new Lightyear movie could not have targeted my niche demographic more if the intro crawl had said “For Jake.” And to …
Updated on April 10, 2022
Trilogies, Artist Intent, and Why You’re Wrong
There is a right way and a wrong way to watch Lord of the Rings, and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
