The book I'm listening to, Replay, is laying the groundwork to really piss me off. After living his life over several times, the protagonist, Jeff, sees a movie out in theaters that he's never heard of before. It is a huge blockbuster that he definitely would have heard of or seen before in his previous …
The end is near!
I finally know how my novel ends. Yes, this sounds crazy considering that I'm 4ok + words in, but it's just how I work. I have a general idea of how things will go, but never any details until I get there. Well, I'm close enough now that I can see clearly what happens, and …
How to avoid looking back?
I never used to look back, to wonder or care about how I could have done things differently. Maybe it's part of getting older, but I've started having those thoughts more often. I started listening to a new book recently, 'Replay', about a man who dies, and wakes up 25 years in the past, in …
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Once again Butler has given me an unexpected ending to what I thought was going to be an 'another one of those' story. As I've mention in previous posts, the story is about two immortal and powerful characters with opposing desires. With this format in most writers hands you'd expect that one character would be …
Take the ‘tell’ out of storytelling
I've been off and on watching the Netflix original 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', and although it is lovely to look at with great production value and an all-star cast, it is really quite infuriating at times. My irritation is due to the narrator. The story is framed as research done by a man named …
Jonas David 