We’ve had Jaws, we’ve had Piranha, now it’s time to get ready for… GUPPIES. So you know those spas where you can stick your feet in the pools and little fishies just eat all the dead skin off your toes? Well, one night, one of these spas has a terrible accident and someone dies after…Read more
Writing
Deus ex Bullshit: Tragic characters don’t get happy endings
Okay, so I am back on the watch a bunch of movies and critically analyze them job and I am noticing what pearl-clutchers would call a Disturbing Trend. Over and over and over, I’m watching movies with a tragic narrative structure that flinch at the last second and try and give it a happy ending….Read more
Six Things I Learned Writing “Snake Bite”
(I’m shamelessly stealing this format from the incredible and incomparable Chuck Wendig. Read his books!) Snake Bite is the story of a female police officer escorting a prisoner to the site of his most recent murder. But when the prisoner’s brother, the leader of a notorious gang, ambushes the cops to free the prisoner, the…Read more
Starbucks Writers
What day is it? I’m serious. Sometimes I am not really sure. I’m living in front of my computer screen, and it has this sort of Las Vegas casino effect. There are not any windows here. Is it daytime? Nighttime? I blink and it’s sunset… or sunrise? I’m a little bit afraid what effect this…Read more