My short story, The Choice That Had To Be Made, which I self-published and is currently on sale at Maitland’s local bookseller, McDonald’s, for $5 has a front cover and I can finally show it to you. (I have just, and finally, figured out how to add images to this bloody wwInterweb site. You’ll see [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by ryan
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The entire reason I started this blog was so that prospective people who would want to work with me, or just read my stuff, would be able to get a solid handle on who I was. This complete character study would of course come through reading my thoughts on comics, movies, music and my life [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by ryan
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I am a big fan of MOvember.
For those not in the know, it is a charity event where eligible males grow a moustache for the month of MOvember and raise money, and awareness, for men’s health issues.
Last year I ripped off a cracker of a Reynold’s style slice of goodness. This year, sadly, I am [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2008 by ryan
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Life abounds with so much to do. I find that there is never much down time, and quite honestly, I would barely know what to do with it if I stumbled across it. When I am presented with quiet moments I feel bad if I don’t do anything with them. And I use that word [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by ryan
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A good quote, yet another that hangs above my laptop staring down on my daily workings. Laughing at me for attempting what hacks get paid for and I do not.
Every writer I know has trouble writing
- Joseph Heller
It always makes me think. Heller was a genius (anyone arguing/questioning that point just go and digest Catch [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by ryan
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I’ve been writing more and more on my novel idea. It just keeps growing and growing in my head and on the page. I will sit down to do a chapter and they all seem to be getting longer, the world it inhabits growing larger and clearer in my head. I feel that strong rewrites/editing [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by ryan
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It’s a serious heading, isn’t it?
The last two weeks, and change, have given me time to work on a new project. A novel. It’s been nice to have so much time each day to devote to it, nearly every day seeing more come out of my head and more come into my head. It’s fun [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by ryan
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I’m watching Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory, not the creepy Johnny Depp version, but the original. The classic. The best. Everytime I watch it I’m amazed by how great it is, even though it really shouldn’t be a surprise. It consistently rocks the shit over the many years I’ve been watching it.
I can remember [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by ryan
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Lame title, I know, but it made me laugh on a lark. It stays.
A Captain America film is coming, this we know. Marvel has slated it for a 2010 release, if memory serves me correct.
Captain America is the story of Steve Rogers, a guy who was too skinny to fight in the world war so [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by ryan
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I have a great quote on my wall above my laptop. I’ve been looking at it every day, many times a day, for the last few weeks since it was printed off and put up.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
- Anton Chekhov
I think that is [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by ryan
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