Archive for July, 2005
No Tickee…No Shirtee - No money? No story
I have been wondering about the mentality that leads a person to want to publish another person’s work, but that bypasses the pangs of guilt that should accompany not paying for it. No-advance anthologies proliferate, and in the end most of them end up being no-pay anthologies where the postage to send out royalties [...]
Anonymous Comments Disabled
Thanks to all of the junk posts coming in as anonymous comments, I’ve had to disable them for the time being. Comments can still be made by registered users.
Thanks,The Administration
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From Book To Film
Greetings and salutations, dear readers. Coming to you live from seedy, I mean sunny, California, this is your friendly neighborhood filmmaker with this month’s Storytellers Unplugged column.
Instead of continuing the Parallel column I started last month, I’d like to switch gears and talk about something else very interesting that is cooking. Parallel is [...]
Dreams of the Dark
I’m pretty sure that my affinity for writing horror comes largely from the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have had chronic, hellishly bad dreams. They’re usually in 70mm Cinemascope and Technicolor, with THX sound, and some of them have lingered through the years more vividly than any waking experience. In [...]
The Risks You Take
Someone once said that there’s no such thing as an original plot idea; it’s all been done before. The thing about this game is that the inventiveness and the freshness revolves around how that idea is spun. It can be as old as the hills but as long as the telling is something new, or [...]
The past year has seen my writing transform me from mild-mannered game designer to international man of mystery, which is another way of saying I’ve racked up an impressive number of frequent flier miles on various video game writing assignments. This has both its good and its bad points. The good ones are obvious – [...]
The Anthology Tango
As one of the senior members of this motley crew, in years, anyway, I feel it incumbent upon me to start trouble every once in a while. That’s one of the prerogatives of age and, dammit, I’ve earned it.
If anyone has a good, juicy, troublemaking topic, feel free to send it to me. [...]
Channeling Don King
When my first novel, The Unwelcome Child, was finally accepted by a publishing house, I thought I could finally relax, or at least get to work on another project. However, these days I find myself busy composing queries to reviewers, magazines, and websites, creating a website of my own, not to mention writing a monthly [...]
Wish You Were Here
Greetings from Bien Hoa, Vietnam!
I’m writing from the living room of my in-laws, and frankly, trying to determine what I should talk about this month. But there is no shortage of things to say about this, my second visit to Vietnam – it’s more a matter of what specifically to do with all that raw [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Wit Pope
While researching this essay about the negative buzz that rings through the Writer’s Community (I use the term Writer’s Community for lack of a better one) every time a new Harry Potter book comes along, inevitably breaking every sales record in publishing history, I came across a piece about the new Pontiff’s take on the [...]
