My writing output has been increasing lately because of this. When I'm not writing, I try to think about what I'll write next. Simple right? But it's so easy to get distracted, and busy, and lose sight of what you were doing. Especially if you don't have much time to write, you've got to make …
Err on the side of confusion
A bit of advice to writers of TV, movies and books alike: I'd rather be confused than treated like an idiot. People generally aren't as slow as you seem to think, dear writers of the stuff I read and watch. You don't have to make that hint so painfully obvious, or explain this concept or piece …
Finish it, you hand-wringing sloth
Whenever I need a boost in confidence I go to the bargain section in the supermarket and pick up one of those thrillers where the cover is the silhouette of a guy running down a dark alley. Yeah, I can write better than that. You know why that guy has a novel sitting on bookshelves in …
The girl who girled a girl
What is with all these books? I mean, I haven't read any of them, though I did watch the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series (the original Swedish ones, not the confusing American remakes released like, the very next year [what the hell is the point of remaking the exact movie a year later with a …
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks: A hell of a story
This is the 8th Culture novel, and the third that I've read, and so far I think it's the most memorable. The story focuses on virtual reality, and mainly the virtual realities different civilizations create for their afterlives. Some of them being hells. With the ability to record, copy and / or upload consciousness, comes …
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