I read my favourite book in the middle of 1997, 12 years ago in the way-back machine. It was Stephen King’s The Shining and it absolutely knocked my socks off, at my tender age of 15. I had never read something that seemed so perfect to me. I had loved Roald Dahl, and continued to, [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2009 by ryan
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I read an article recently that told writers that they had to create a personal manifesto. They were to list all of the things that appeared in their writing and then think about them. Dissect them, analyse them, wonder why they were such constants, consider what they brought to the writing, and ponder their writing [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by ryan
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I’m not looking for the leads on this one, I’m talking background gold. I want the unsung heroes that nail every episode with a single look in a scene or one line between the constant flapping of the actual stars. These are the ones that make it worthwhile sticking around and watching every episode. These [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by ryan
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It’s been a busy morning. Trying to get some words out on the novel, not actually sure what I got, pretty sure it was under a thousand, but I do know what I want from the scene and sometimes what you need is a good bit of writing that you want to do just sitting [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by ryan
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I spent a week not working and am now spending a week working at half-speed. Getting the flu sucks. Getting over it seems to suck just as much, I still don’t feel 100%, but I know I’m close. The biggest difference I have noticed is on my writing ethic. I would normally arise at 5am [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2009 by ryan
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It was a while ago that I came up with what I thought would be a nifty little idea for a short story. It was a bout a guy who had OCD and it caused him to have to wash his hands every hour on the hour. The complication of the story would be that [...]
Posted on August 12th, 2009 by ryan
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I am excited about yet another comic title soon to debut. But this one hits home a little too close as I also came up with the idea about four days ago. Granted, if the idea from Marvel has just been announced then it was probably kicking around a lot longer than four days ago, [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2009 by ryan
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“I think I know why they sent me here first. They know I’m ready to kill anyone I can get my hands on.” A future of comics. Just watch it first. It’s the Spider-Woman Motion Comic Trailer Notes on this trailer. The opening credits show some serious production value and wicked sense of design and [...]
Posted on August 6th, 2009 by ryan
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Over at The Weekly Crisis they stole my idea, how rude. Nah, I’d been chatting with Matt Ampersand on Twitter and it’s all good. Plus, he gave a link back that just added serious weight to my site hits, which isn’t why I do this, but it’s nice to know someone out there has looked [...]
Posted on August 6th, 2009 by ryan
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What are you supposed to do when you hit a writing milestone? This morning I hit 50k of words on my latest novel. It feels unbelievably satisfying to hit that mark in around a month’s time, it’s beating down the nice average of 1k a day I like to set. It’s blowing it away, truth [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2009 by ryan
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