Memorable Monologues
Certain monologues have always stuck in my head and influenced my writing. Why did they stick in my head? I try to explain… I can’t find a clip of the next one, but I found…
Category: Writing
What is It? It’s It, I guess…
I finally saw the new It movie from 2017. It’s really an easy movie to review. It can be summed up in one sentence: Scary clown charges camera and goes RAWR! It is a competently…
Short Story Acceptance
I received word that a short story of mine has been accepted by Stupifying Stories. The story is titled The Cuttle Out Of Ground. That moniker is a play on the title of one of…
A Walk In The Dark
I recently reread A Walk In The Dark by Arthur C. Clarke. It is widely considered a classic little suspense/horror/science fiction tale. It is about an astronaut on a planetoid who has to walk, in…
The Outsider By Stephen King
I had to get myself something for my birthday, so I decided to try The Outsider by Stephen King. I kind of break King’s career, cross-referenced with my tastes, down like this: 1970s-1980s King: Amazing…
The Predator (2018) — Spoilers
Did you folks see the world exclusive image from Shane Black’s The Predator in Empire? Unfortunately, it spoils the whole movie. You can reverse engineer the entire story from that single image. You’ve got a…
The Final Countdown — Movie, Not Song
What if a US aircraft carrier from 1980 went back in time to 1941 and had a chance to defeat the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack force with modern weaponry, Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen? This…
How I Wrote A Short Story
I finished a short story! How did I get to that point? It’s a grand, romantic odyssey. One day I was diddy-bopping along and thought, hey, I should write a story. What is a good…
Plot And Predator 2018 Revisited
Since I wrote my original post on the new Predator movie where I made up my own plot for fun, more details have come out about the movie’s actual plot. I am happy to see…
Peretti and Koontz
I’ve been getting back into the reading habit lately, partially for fun and partially to look at the prose of the authors whose books I am reading. I just finished The Oath by Frank Peretti….