1 Hour to Write: Creating a Short Story From Scratch in Only 1 hour
The idea for the 1 Hour To Write stories comes from the time-lapse videos of people painting or drawing pictures. They’re fascinating to...
Book Review: The Crook Factory
It’s hard to write a book review for a Dan Simmons book without addressing Simmons’ mastery of so many genres. From reviews I’ve read of...
A Reader Who Plays Sports, or a Jock Who Reads?
My whole life, I’ve realized that I rarely fit into the conventional mold. I’m not talking about angsty rebellion and sticking it to...
Nothing Sexy: The Writing Process
In the previous post, I mentioned one of the many things I envy about movie making: montages. They can be sad, heartbreaking, exciting,...
Jump Scares and Why I'm Sometimes Jealous of Movies
We’ve all been there, right? You’re sitting in a living room with some good friends watching a scary movie. Everyone is biting their...
Three Purposes of Dialogue
Perhaps you love dialogue. Perhaps you can’t stand it. But rather you’re writing it or reading it, let’s face it, dialogue is essential...
Book Reviews: The Exile by Allan Folsom
The first 247 pages of this novel are fast, hard-hitting, exciting, and suspenseful. Unfortunately, this book has about 700 pages....
Why Plot Matters More Than the Characters
Kevin Spacey’s character, Verbal, looks around nervously, agitated by accusations that his friends had used him, that the man he had...
Book Reviews: The Gray Man by Mark Greaney
Synopsis Mark Greaney might be writing for the one and only Tom Clancy now, but this is where he got his start: The Gray Man. So who is...
Why Characters are More Important Than Plot
Good characters are always more important than a good plot. Don’t believe me? The Dark Knight. The plot was pretty much non-existent. ...
