I’ll never forget the first time I cried during a live action movie. I’d cried at animated movies before, of course. The classic tearjerkers - Bambi, The Lion King, and of course The Land Before Time. But live action movies hadn’t hit me the same way. Probably a large part of that was the kind …
Write to Market 3: Stop. Trying. To. Cash in. On. COVID-19.
I’ve talked previously on what it means to write to market - you can see part 1 here and part 2 here - and I’d thought I’d said all I had to say on the subject. But this, like so many things, changed with the advent of COVID-19. The first true pandemic of the modern …
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Quarantine Activity Suggestion: Dungeons and Dragons (No, Really)
So...we’re in social distancing mode. Over here, I’ve got some of the symptoms of COVID-19, although not enough to take any kind of test, and therefore am home bound until they clear up. (I'll be fine, don't worry!) Which is going to be great for my writing, not so much for my existential dread over …
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Bad Ideas for Valentines Day When Single
Valentine’s day can be a tough holiday when you’re single. It feels like the entirety of popular culture is designed to make you feel like you are somehow failing by not being in a relationship. Granted, thanks to the wonders of social media you can feel that way every day if most of your friends …
Endgame Crisis – Comparing the Two Big Crossovers
Last year, Marvel had the culmination of over a decade of movies in Avengers Endgame, a landmark event that featured heroes from multiple franchises coming together to face a threat to all of reality, a monster of incredible power known as Thanos that had already managed to wipe out half of all life in the …
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2019 Roundup or I Got Sick Again, Have Some Links
I’ve not been feeling great the past couple of days. It happens. I was going to do this post at the beginning of the year, but decided to instead save it for a day just like today, when I wasn’t feeling well. So, instead of my normal post, here’s some of my favorite things I’ve …
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Reality is not Dark, so Why is Realistic Fiction?
Have you heard of The Magicians? If you’ve been browsing Facebook at all lately, you probably have, since I think they’ve sunk pretty much all the marketing budget in the world into their latest advertising campaign. I’ve never watched the show or read the books, so the phrase “Fillory with Fen” has about as much …
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Oh Dear Merciful Jesus, We Don’t Need a Bloodshot Movie
Just last post, I talked about how the 90’s were a dark time for comic books, a dark time full of bad writing and excessive gore. The one real good thing I can say about the 90’s is, as terrible as they were for comics, it’s an era that we escaped from, an era we …
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Coffee and Books – Write to Market Deconstructed 2, Electric Boogaloo
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post about why the “Write to market” advice so many people get is...not as simple as it seems. I suggest you check it out, because - as the title indicates - this is a sequel to that. And, like that post, this one is going to reference …
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The Expanse is Everything Good With Sci-Fi
Rise of the Skywalkers was disappointing. I saw it, and was going to do a review, but I’m two weeks behind the rest of the internet on this one. Everyone’s done their hot takes, their hot takes about the hot takes, the backlash to the hot takes, and the backlash to the backlash. We’re now …
