Have you ever noticed that witches in stories have little cottages out in the woods away from everyone? The implication is that they stay away from villages that might turn against them. But what if it has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with geography. Specifically, what if witches are like Jaguars…
I just finished watching John Leguizamo’s HBO special, Ghetto Klown. It’s pretty awesome, especially if you like auto-biographies. What I liked most was his characterization of his father. Well, I liked a lot of it, but what I found most inspiration from a creative sense was his characterization of his grandfather. A Colombian communist who…
Supers fiction is perhaps the smallest niche of sf/f. Supers can be fun or it can be incredibly cliche (if you grew up reading comics–which if you’re interested in supers fiction is a good bet). I tend to think of supers creatively as graphic novels for that same background of comics reading. I can’t think…
It’s not a good idea to wait on inspiration, but when it strikes, you grab that shit and hold on. It can be a winning lottery ticket, and if you tell it to wait until later, you might never get to scratch off those numbers and hit the big score. /simile I was leaving work…
Before we begin, watch this. You can thank me in the comments. Alright, now that you’ve watched that two or three (or twenty) times, let’s continue, shall we? I have a draft post that I’ve been working on for weeks. This isn’t it. It’s a picture of my bookshelf. When I envisioned that post last…