A thread on the Agony Booth got me thinking of this movie again (see, they don’t just talk about crappy film there) and like Lost, it is unconventionally structured which in some ways highlights some of the storytelling mechanics. So I thought I’d come up with another list (which may Read more…
Ok, there are some internet folks out there that need a whopping cluebat of perspective. May I please provide your clue: Sexual solicitation is a non-partisan activity Spending $20 bucks for a blow job in an airport bathroom my be sleazier than buying the service of a $5000 call girl Read more…
Like I mentioned with Wolfbreed #1 some time ago, there’s a point in every novel I’ve written where I feel like, “OMG what kind of garbage am I writing here?” It always happens in the last third of the book. I hit a wall where I feel everything I’ve written Read more…
I just saw a guy wearing a snowsuit that was hunter orange camouflage. What’s the point?
No, don’t get too excited. But, in regards to my last weekly asshat’s asshattery, an apparently otherwise intelligent blogger, in posting her own rebuttal, suffered an extreme case of foot-in-mouth disease: […] romance novels […] are not “books”, as that word is normally used. They are either tools for relaxation Read more…
Introducing Charlotte Allen, from the Washington Post. Before I deconstruct her rampant idiocy, let me allow her to spew a few of her own words: The theory that women are the dumber sex […] is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence. Men’s and women’s brains not only look different, Read more…
This is an actual assault rifle. As in, it shoots real bullets. This is so wrong, and yet so cool. (Read more here.) I wonder if fellow hamster Marie might want one.
Still a-novelling, so my blogging is minimal, but I thought I’d post link to some deconstructions of good query letters (query 1, query 2) posted some time ago by Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown Ltd. both showing impressive examples of what a good query should look like. The more examples Read more…
Blogging is taking a back seat to the new novel (30K+ yea me!) And yes, I bumped up the total wordage of Valentine’s Night, the spec novel I’m working on while waiting to hear back from Anne. Two reasons. I have trouble writing short, and I don’t feel I’m that Read more…