Failing again. Failing better.
Sorry for the late post today. I think I blew a communication circuit last night by tweeting/posting too many snarky comments about the Presidential debate. For all of my Twitter followers, Facebook friends, and blog subscribers who stuck with me during the evening (and even the couple that found me because of it!), thanks. I’m…
Some mashups are strange. Some are strangely funny. And some are such a bizarre combination that I am struck by how well they combine. I find myself both awed by the keen ear and the oddball sense of humor. This is one of the those. It’s a mashup of PSY’s “Gangnam Style” and Ray Parker…
AMERICAN VAMPIRE VOL. 4 isn’t the best in the series, but it gives fans plenty of meaty material to sink their teeth into (terrible pun completely intended). This volume of American Vampire is divided into two portions. The first takes place in the 1800s during the Indian Wars, and the second portion takes place during…
When looking at the greats in a field, particularly artistic and athletic fields, people tend to focus on the prodigies. Mozart was composing as a child. Tiger Woods was golfing as a toddler. People tend to assume they had some unnatural talent or passion that led them to greatness. In TALENT IS OVERRATED, Geoff Colvin…
So although I’m a latecomer, I’ve become a big fan of the Writing Excuses podcast, hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells. The most recent episode discusses Dan Wells’s Seven Point Story Structure. Apparently, it’s a structure that Dan discovered from a role-playing game, but he has since learned that…