Check out this Kickstarter Project: The Beast of Wolfe’s Bay is an adventure/sci-fi story with a splash of comedy, folklore, and romance mixed in for good measure. It’s a one-shot graphic novel, not a series, so you’ll get a thick, full-color book for your bookshelf, if people still have those. The hero of the story is [...]
I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn’t really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you’re lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it’s got to be a craft. You’ve got to have a beginning, middle and end. - Robert Ludlum Via: [...]
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. 2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implementpromises, but keep them. 3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” [...]
Stephen King is gracing us with another anthology horror film! The movie will be called Stephen King’s The Reaper’s Image, which is the title of one of the stories. Mark Pavia directed The Night Flier in ’97, and is set to direct the movie, which will include four different story adaptations from the master of horror. Included is, The Reaper’s [...]
It’s a sad day, Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to stop printing their physical encyclopedia series. Encyclopaedia Britannica grew in popularity when door-to-door salesman pitched books to the neighborhood. Encyclopaedia Britannica acknowledged that we are now living in a digital age and their competition with Wikipedia. The last print version of the encyclopedia is the 32-volume 2010 edition, [...]
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain Tweet
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. -Stephen King Tweet
I was reading, “Eleonora” by Edgar Allen Poe, this evening and came across this line; “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.” Tweet
