Tag Archives: Crap

We Don’t Need No Education

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 4, 2013

I watched an interesting video recently (Escape to the Movies, escapistmagazine.com) that suggested the strength of Stephanie Meyers’s work is that it is, more or less, professional “Outsider” art. The idea is that Meyers isn’t a very good writer, but she also is offering something different exactly because she hasn’t been pounded and shaped by [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Arcs, Artistic Conventions, Average Person, Dead Horse, Education, Outsider Art, People, Plodding, Plot Structure, Point Of View, Professional Artist, Stephanie Meyers, Storytelling Technique, Stuff, Stupid Thing, Truth, Twilight, Worldview | 5 Comments

Untitled

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 19, 2012

Hey, everybody. Today’s blog is a little bit different. I had a couple of my Twitter / Facebook followers throw out some suggested opening sentences to see what kind of story I could write from it. I had three pretty good suggestions and incorporated them all into this very short piece of fiction. I don’t [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Bombeck, Cats, Corpses, Damn Thing, Dead Guys, Dead Man, Dead Writer, Different Reasons, Flesh, Followers, Ghosts, Girlfriend, Habit, Hell, Human Nature, Information Superhighway, Jerks, Kindness, Little Bit, Massive Multiplayer Online Games, Mmos, Morgue, Morning Sex, Multiplayer Online Games, Ol Lady, Old Lady, Opening Sentence, Pets, Ragers, Risk, Secondary Skill, Sentences, Strange Contradiction, Trolls | 4 Comments

Worlds Apart

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 7, 2011

So I’ve given Tron Legacy a lot of crap. I admit it. I just don’t like the movie. In fact, I think it’s a hollow shell of a film. It’s a disservice to the original film. It’s a train wreck all on its own. And, worst of all, it manages to make light cycles and [...]

Posted in Blog, Movies, Writing | Also tagged Amazon, Bad Person, Characterization, Different Reasons, Disservice, Emotional Resonance, Full Spectrum, Hollow Shell, Legacy, Light Cycles, Liking, Logical Perspective, Logical Universe, Music Video, Proof, Train Wreck, Universes, Worlds Apart | 3 Comments

Monster Gods and The Terran Condition

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 13, 2010

One of the reasons I chafe under the “comic fantasy writer” label is that it usually comes with a sense of dismissiveness, a “good for what it is” qualification. I hate complaining about this because I’m lucky to get paid to do this at all, and complaining about some people not liking your books because they’re [...]