From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Nothing New Under the Cinematic Sun?

March 19, 2010

I finally saw Avatar. I realize it’s been out for months and earned an obscene amount of money at the box office, but I have a thing about crowds and prefer to wait until the hype has died down before I see a blockbuster like this in a movie theatre. I must say that James [...]

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Rules for Writing

March 17, 2010

Cover of BECOMING A WRITER I recently read an article in the Guardian titled “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction”. It was primarily a platform to promote Elmore Leonard’s new book 10 Rules of Writing. Of course, six of the ten Leonard rules I’ve been guilty of breaking. But the article went to garner ten rules [...]

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That Which Does Not Kill Us May Make Us Stronger, But It Can Also Crush The Writer’s Muse

March 15, 2010

Charles Bukowski via last.fmToday, I get a letter in my mailbox at work that will tell me whether or not I have a job here next year. Unfortunately, many are in this situation with the economy the way it is. That kind of pressure weighs heavily on a person and it got me to thinking [...]

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Hulk: It’s Not Easy Being Green

March 12, 2010

This is the third in my series taking about superhero characters. In my kickoff post I explained how in some ways they are the modern Gods – created in our image to put into stories to help us understand ourselves better. This time I’m looking at The Hulk, a brutish misfit with near limitless strength. [...]

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Know When to Say When

March 10, 2010

When I was a kid if I started a book, I finished a book.  I’m not sure why but it felt like quitting if you didn’t finish the whole thing, a failure.  The problem of course is that you’ll spend a lot of time reading stuff you don’t like or stuff that’s simply crap.  It [...]

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