It’s the end of April and it’s time for the rundown of my favorite things from the past month!
Let’s right to it with:
I watched a grand total of two movies, and one of them was because I realized I didn’t want to call the piece of shit I watched earlier in the month my favorite. The piece of shit was 400 Days and I don’t want to talk about how boring and nonsensical the entire venture was. Continue reading
It’s April 24th, 2016. Sixteen weeks and one left in April, let’s do that update thing again!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
So a quick rundown of what I accomplished towards these goals: Continue reading
One of the things that I struggle with as a writer is creating interesting characters that have all the hallmarks of a real person, but also can grow and change to create a satisfying character arc that feels natural to the story I’m telling. I imagine I’m not alone when I say that.
Some people like to be reductive about this and simply say “just write real people”, but the answer is never that simple. Real people don’t work in most fiction because fiction isn’t about real people. Fiction is artifice of reality. It has structure where reality doesn’t. It has archetypes and tropes and plot elements and a hundred other things that help define a fictional story. Continue reading
It’s April 17th, 2016. Fifteen weeks have come and gone for 2016, so let’s talk about our progress!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
So a quick rundown of what I accomplished towards these goals: Continue reading
It’s Thursday, and that means time to ramble.
What’s in a description? When you’re writing a scene, sometimes you want to get all the details down. What’s the room look like? What’s it smell like? Who’s in the room, and what do THEY look and smell like? What are they doing from second to second? Who simpers playfully and who remarks with anger? What are they wearing? Is it important to know what they’re wearing? Continue reading
It’s April 10th, 2016. It’s time to throw an update full of words at you!
My goals for Second Quarter of 2016 (April-June) are as follows:
It’s Thursday here at Panning For Clouds and that means I’m gonna ramble on about something that’s been stuck in my head for a while, that is probably in some way related to writing, editing, or publishing.
You ready for this?
So as the article’s title suggests, there’s often this THING in the publishing world that you hear about. “We want to publish your detective novels, not your sci fi novels.” “You should only write fantasy because it’s the thing people like the most.” “We have no interest in publishing out of genre.”
Now, granted, I would love to have that problem, because it means I have landed a successful story somewhere. But the point is that it’s a commonly held belief in the publishing industry and elsewhere that authors should be writing in one genre because of a variety of reasons. Continue reading
It’s April 3rd, 2016. I said it last week and I’ll say it again, Let’s do that update thing I do!
My goals for the thirteenth week of the year were as follows:
Didn’t manage to submit or write a short story this week. Too much going on and I’m trying to focus in on that editing thing a bit more. Continue reading
And now, for your entertainment pleasure, it’s time for the month-end media roundup!
Actually, we’re not doing that. It was kind of lacking in substance and it took a long amount of time to do without a lot of payoff.
So instead I’m going to break down my FAVORITE thing from each type of media I consumed over the month of March.
Let’s get to it!
I didn’t watch a ton of movies during March (I rarely do these days, it seems), but I did see Batman v. Superman (it was garbage), I watched Deadpool for a second time (still glorious), and I watched a movie called Slow Learners from Netflix. It stars Adam Palley and Sarah Burns, both of whom you recognize on sight. I’m not sure I’d call Slow Learners my favorite movie that I watched in March (at least new movie I watched in March), but it definitely had some funny moments despite being a completely typical indie rom-com. Continue reading
It’s March 27th, 2016! Let’s do that update thing I do.
I had goals for Week Twelve, and this is what they were:
I did pretty good this week, and I had family in town during the latter part of the week, so I’m calling that a pretty big win. Continue reading
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