But except in dreams you're never really free
Don't the sun look angry at me

The end of the year is a good time to reflect, and as I look over the year, these are the things I think of ( Read more... )

One of the people I work with (not a staff) was unable to sleep last night. I checked on her a few times, and I asked if I could do anything every time I checked in. Around 4 in the morning, she said she couldn't sleep because she just kept thinking about what she had done the day before and felt so embarrassed about it. When I asked her to tell ( Read more... )

People walk around today calling everyone their best friend. The term doesn't have any real meaning anymore. Mere acquaintances are lavished with hugs and kisses upon a second or at most third meeting, birthday cards get passed around offices so everybody can scribble a snippet of sentimentality for a colleague they barely met, and everyone just ( Read more... )

I didn't post it here, but the novel is done. I got done a week early, about a thousand words over the 50k goal, and I think the last act, about 12k words, is plotted FAR better than the first two acts, so when I rewrite it, I'll be doing it with that in mind ( Read more... )

One of the things they talk about in NaNoWriMo circle is that during the second week, people can hit a wall. I don't know if I have hit that wall before, but I do know that on one of my novels, I realized during the second week that the whole damn thing was a mess, and while I walked it through to the ending, I have placed it in a file and have not ( Read more... )

The thing about a noir novel is that I feel compelled to avoid the cliches, but they are so ingrained in the genre that the plot wants to drift toward them. The dark rainy streets, the femme fatale, the private eye ( Read more... )

I might as well crosspost what I've been writing on Tumblr here. I see a few people remain, so ( Read more... )

One of the phrases I've heard a lot lately is that “Nostalgia is a longing for the past, almost a form of melancholy ( Read more... )

I have recently read the first four issues of Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and am really impressed with what Kirby was doing with the book. Let's face it, after Kirby adapted the movie in a Treasury edition, the idea of a comic book series based on the movie seems like a REALLY odd choice. However, Kirby dived in, and as he did it, it played ( Read more... )