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Category: writing
Book Report: WWW:Wake
I have issues with Robert J. Sawyer. He’s a good writer, and he tells a good story, but sometimes his prose becomes a patchwork of pop-culture references bordering on fanfic-wink-wink: if you don’t get what he’s talking about from the…
Book Report: Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers
I’m not calling this a “comic book report” because, even though it is a collection of comic book scripts, it is not itself a comic book. Did I just blow your mind? Anyway. It’s very instructive to see how differently…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Nothing Up His Sleeve”
I originally wrote this week’s story for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest. I didn’t expect to win, and my expectations were met. Fully, and then some. FWIW, I am still working on internalizing the lessons of Henning Nelm’s Magic and Showmanship….
Book Report: The War of Art
I’ll be honest: if I hadn’t been listening to this as an audio book, and if it hadn’t been a day when I was working as an extra, I wouldn’t have finished this book. Not even close. There is some…
Not so much with the Frenzy
Yeah, so I’m not going to finish Script Frenzy this month. I made a bunch of notes and wrote a couple of decent scenes, but most of April was taken up with preparations for the DASH puzzle hunt. That was…
Comic Book Report: The Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
And now for something completely different. Well, not entirely. Mike Carey riffs on Harry Potter, Fables (Bill Willingham wrote the introduction to this collection), and real-world fandom, telling the high-concept story of a young man who has the same name…
Comic Book Report: Star Trek: Spock – Reflections
This, in my opinion, is a rare example of good fanfic. As the title indicates, it’s a very introspective story about everyone’s favorite Vulcan, and it succeeds by using small moments in Spock’s life to build up a larger, character-revelatory…
Friday Flash Fiction: “State Secrets”
I was having some trouble writing a story yesterday, so D helped me by supplying this idea (paraphrased): “A man finds the Holy Grail in the jungle, then gets killed by a gorilla!” Thus was I inspired, though I did…