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3 things No Country For Old Men can tell us about storytelling

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
politics

Sir, please back away from the sex scandal

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
Apotheosis Trilogy

Here we go again

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. Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
wtf

Please explain this

I just saw a guy wearing a snowsuit that was hunter orange camouflage. What’s the point?

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
asshat

And, apparently I’m writing porn

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
asshat

This week’s asshat

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
wtf

From the department of mixed messages. . .

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.

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
publishing

More on Query Letters

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
movies

Pop culture implosion

This pic from io9 has to be a sign of the apocalypse, or something.

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
fantasy

Moving the Goalposts

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 Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago

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