by L. Santiago
Disclaimer: I know that some people really like this movie. In fact, some of my best friends really like this movie. However . . . a balance must be struck. Since the beginning of time, I’ve vowed that if there came an MCU film worthy of an absolute tear-down because its writing was a mess,... Continue Reading →
Today, I finally implemented a few tiny changes I wanted to make in the early chapters of Memory. The kind that you know you want to make before you know what they are--if that makes sense. The result of a gut feeling that something's off, lingering so hard it becomes some cousin of Writer's Block... Continue Reading →
Last night, I asked a friend if he hated my novel. To set this up, it was the one friend who isn’t in my writing group. I sent my MS to him weeks ago and he avoided talking about it. To me, that meant I was getting Ghost Read (my term for that phenomenon when... Continue Reading →
That title . . . makes it sounds so ominous. Let me clarify; what I don’t mean is that this is the year where Omicron merges with GPT-3 and the not-at-all-evil-sounding “xenobots” to become a Thanos-level super villain. All of those things are real, even the xenobots (ho ho, scientists say they learned to self-replicate... Continue Reading →
I wasn’t going to write about Hades this week. My post is late because, though I was planning on cleaning up one of the reserve posts I’d written a week ago, the news dropped yesterday that Hades won a Hugo Award for Literature. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough, Hades is the first game to... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: While working out what to write this week, I remembered that I had multiple posts saved for future posting. I wrote them, saved them, and totally forgot about them. In one case, I actually just assumed I did post them and was genuinely shocked that I hadn't. So, given that things are a little... Continue Reading →
Okay. I promise that I’m not stressed out. Edits didn’t go poorly. But they didn’t go poorly because I had a breakthrough . . . that took extremely long to hit me. “If you edit something for long enough, it stops getting better—it just starts getting different.” I don’t remember who told me that. Someone... Continue Reading →
Things That Happened While My Back Was Busted: I watched The Princess Bride, and in doing so discovered that . . . holy shit, Inigo Montoya is really the protagonist of that story. Like, the Han Solo factor of “Why am I not following this guy the whole time?” couples so strongly with his arc... Continue Reading →
I never, ever like taking multiple week breaks these days. But I'm working with a half-charge on my laptop and a thrown-out back. So, like, can I get to my laptop charger on the other side of the room? Sure. Am I going to do that? Hell no--even lying down right now is uncomfortable. And,... Continue Reading →
Apologies for this one being a little late; my sleep schedule is such that I accidentally missed the majority of Sunday. I would have done a November “Read/Watch/Play” today, but A) I haven’t finished the novel I started reading last week and B) the only good thing I’ve watched so far this month was Shang-Chi,... Continue Reading →
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