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Category Archives: Writing
The Event Horizon of Boring
Having seen the recent Batman movie trailer, I have to say this film looks like a stone cold bummer. I realize I stand on the wrong side (culturally) of this struggle, but I just didn’t care for The Dark Knight at all. It struck me as a combination of the worst elements of superheroes, realism, [...]
Also posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies Tagged Alien Invasions, Batman Film, Batman Movie Trailer, Black Eyed Peas, Brutality, Captain America, Comic Book, Commercial Success, Dark Knight, Event Horizon, Good Guys, Green Lantern, Melodrama, Music Group, Nazis, Nods, Rap Rock, Realism, Universes, Wrong Side 10 Comments
Fanciful Liars
Human beings are extremely gullible. I know this because I make a living trading on that gullibility. Technically, I’m a fiction novelologist, but that’s just a fancy way of saying I lie for a living. I make stuff up, create characters that have never existed, invent situations that are purely fantasy, and if I do [...]
Also posted in Blog Tagged Alien Invasion, Aliens, Artifice, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Drinking Blood, Emotional Manipulation, Grease, Gullibility, Hobbits, Human Beings, Liar, Liars, Million Dollar Baby, Monsters, Mushrooms, Negative Baggage, Smoke And Shadows, Stupidity, Those Lies, True Fiction 3 Comments
Martinez On: Characters
Just the other day, Feeosh at Twitter asked: Hey A Lee, I was wondering what your methods are in character creation? Where do you start when you’re in the 1st stages? Ah, a writing question. Yes, aside from who would win in fight between Tarzan and anyone (short answer: Tarzan) and why giant fightin’ robots [...]
Also posted in Blog Tagged Assertion, Badass, Bread And Butter, Character Creation, Darth Vader, Detective, Endless String, Giant Robots, Handful, Hundred Years, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Origin Story, Prequel, Scar, Short Answer, Suave Superspy, Tarzan, Wolverine, Wonder Woman 3 Comments
The Mass Effect Effect