Personality types

I retook the Meyers Briggs test, and found that I've evolved from an INTP to an INFP over the past 7 years. Maybe people do change... Reading through all the descriptions though, made me think about my characters and what kind of personalities they are. Do you know your character well enough to take the …

Annihilation movie

Have you seen this trailer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk I'm excited mostly by the 'writer and director of Ex Machina' which is one of the few good sci fi movies to come out in years. The concept and ambiance of this novel (Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy)) was very creepy, weird, and interesting, and if they can translate …

Star Trek Discovery, Episode 1

It's been a long wait, but finally we got a new Star Trek television series, and my expectations were surpassed by multiple warp factors. First, I better preface that by saying that my expectations were very, very low. After all the terrible TNG movies, and the somewhat entertaining but definitely NOT Trek JJ Abrahms movies, …

Enduring stories

I just got some tickets to see The Princess Bride in my local theater for its 30th anniversary, and it has me wondering, what makes some stories stick around and stay loved over the years, and others fade away to nothing? It's definitely not the 'graphics' or 'effects'... yet this is what hollywood spends 90% of …

Leveled up

I feel like I've gained a new writing power--the power to do multiple things. I wrote two short stories in the past week, and went back to my novel without a problem. In the past, whenever I paused anything, even for a short while, to do something else, I'd lose all interest and never go …