So, to start, I got excellent news on New Year’s Day. Namely, I sold a short story, “Jump the Black“, to Rick Klaw’s upcoming anthology “Rayguns Over Texas“. Rayguns is […]
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Goals for the Coming Year
So, from my clock, 2012 has a mere 13 hours and change left to it. 2013 is coming, so its high time to set some unrealistic goals for the year: […]
Read moreHoliday Special Worldbuilding: Religious Texts
Given that it’s Christmas eve, I’m not devoting a lot of time to today’s blog. I’m sure you understand. But I was thinking about religious texts, and how they inform […]
Read moreWide Sprawling Epic Casts
It’s the nature of sci-fi and fantasy to go big, and big means a cast of “main” characters in the dozens, and hundreds of minor characters. And, as much as […]
Read moreAnalyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 5
Parts one, two, three and four of looking at Star Trek: Enterprise‘s third season Xindi Arc. “Home”, the third episode* of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise served as […]
Read moreAnalyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 4
Parts one, two and three. The third act of the Xindi Arc is pretty action packed. On some level, it does make up for the heel-dragging and aimlessness of the […]
Read moreAnalyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 3
A continuation of my analysis of the Xindi-arc of Star Trek: Enterprise. Parts one and two. The argument could be made that the first third was a “slow build”, putting […]
Read moreArchetypes, Rituals and Tropes
First of, let me say I’m going to be talking about Cabin in the Woods here. So, because this is a movie that it matters for: there will be SPOILERS […]
Read moreAnalyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 2
As I mentioned earlier, I’m analyzing a flawed structure as part of an exercise to improve my own writing, specifically using the third “Xindi Arc” season of Star Trek: Enterprise. […]
Read moreOut of Ink Season Again
For the past 13 years, I’ve participated in Austin Scriptworks Out of Ink ten-minute playwriting “fling”, as it is called, which basically works like this: Every year in November, on […]
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