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10 Lessons
While the text is flying fast and furious on Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld (a mouthful, I know — hence why I just call it ComicStoryworld) and other writing projects (like Whiz!Bam!Pow! and assorted writing gigs), and I’m getting accustomed to new (awesome) changes in my life, ...
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Gritty Sexy Media
About a week ago, I received my first vinyl in a long time in the post thanks to a good friend of mine. It was an LP of one of my favorite albums, The Verve’s “Urban Hymns” (the album that has, in my humble opinion, the finest album-opening duo of songs in the last 20 ...
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Vroom at 25%
The day I signed my book contract in September, it hit me. All the celebration was done after a gulp (or twenty) of Guinness, and I had stumbled to bed (couch). I laid there and one thought careened into my head: “Oh fuck. Now I have to write this.” So, from the next morning until ...
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Vintage Randomness
I’m a junkie for vintage mystery paperbacks. A few days ago, I picked up this little gem at my local used book store, Books In Stock, in Wooster, Ohio.Other than the beautiful painted cover, the coolest piece is in the front matter: It was produced during World War II, adhering to the paper conservation regulations ...
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Stuff I’m Reading
Whenever you undertake a creative project, your brain knows it’s going to be in various stages of mush for the duration of the project. When you take on a creative project that happens to include things you used to read for leisure, it’s a whole different animal… an awesome animal. But vicious. Like a lion. ...
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The Creator vs. The Thinker – Writing the Book, One Month In
Anyone who tells you that the life of the writer is a romantic one is on crack. Daily, you are faced with a roller coaster. Sometimes it goes well, and your confidence is up. You can tackle anything! And five minutes later, you’re the worst writer on the planet, a pretender to the altar of ...
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A Mastering Film Three-Fer: On Writing
I know, I know. My capacity for posting these pieces here has right shit of late. But nonetheless, here we go… In my last post, I talked about one of the most important steps you take as a writer: walking away between the first and second drafts so you an approach the rewrite as objectively ...
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POLL: Passive or Immersive Audience?
As I’ve no doubt made you all aware, I’m writing a book on comics and transmedia, to be published next year. As part of it, there’s a ton of research, and for this one, I need your help. The opening section is on transmedia storytelling, and I need to gauge what type of media consumer ...
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RIP Bookstores
There are two things that depress me: politics and the closing of bookstores. As politics has shown its head of being nothing but vaudeville that unfortunately has consequence (even if those in the political field are neither responsible or interested in accountability, rather the interest of themselves, their party, and the current talking points that ...
