http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvuWcnZF_8A May he moonwalk forever in Stovokor. Michael Jackson (1958-2009) ~CKL
Month: June 2009
Friday Flash Fiction: “Defeated”
This week: Magic! Read “Defeated” at 512 Words or Fewer ~CKL
Good Advice
From Consumerist.com: “If a man says he’s a police officer and flashes a badge at you, then tells you to have sex with him or he’ll arrest you, make sure the badge doesn’t say Geek Squad on it first.” ~CKL
Jotting Notes on my ‘Clues’ talk from GC Summit 2007
(with apologies to Larry Hosken) Some of this information is out of date, but there’s still useful stuff in here. And no, I didn’t do this merely out of narcissism; I’m writing up a “clue design primer” for general reference…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Kangaroo’s First Day with the Eye”
This week’s story features characters from Waypoint Kangaroo, the novel I’m currently revising. I still need to do a lot of restructuring and expand a few subplots, but I really enjoy writing these people. Read “Kangaroo’s First Day with the…
Surrogates Timeline
“From the time I started writing the first script until the time the last issue hit the stands, The Surrogates was nearly four years in the making.” – Robert Venditti, “Script to Page,” The Surrogates TPB May, 2002: Robert Venditti…
Whiteout Timeline
1998: Oni Press publishes Whiteout, a 4-issue comic book miniseries written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Steve Lieber. 2000: Whiteout is nominated for multiple Eisner Awards. 2001: Whiteout Volume 1 trade paperback published. 2007: At PAX 2007, Greg Rucka…
You know you’re obsessed…
…with a video game when you start thinking about installing a special utility just so you can get hotkeys to make your gameplay more efficient. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ~CKL
Friday Flash Fiction Twofer
I missed my regularly scheduled shameless self-promotion last week because of our travels in Europe, so I’m doubling up today: The further adventures of Jake and Andy, futurismic detectives!Read “The Color of Questions” at 512 Words or Fewer. How does…