Tag Archives: Human Beings

The Goth Phase

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 23, 2013

Whenever I hear “It’s realistic” as defense for some element of a story, it’s never used to justify a happy ending. If a character is raped or murdered or simply dies tragically and pointlessly, the “That’s life” argument is often used. And certainly, that is life. But sometimes people don’t die tragically. Sometimes, people grow [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Absurdity, Coke, Cosmic Scale, Element, Goth, Happiness, Justification, Misery, Notion, Obscurity, Paradox, Realism, Realist, Reflex, Reprieve, Sad Ending, Universe, Wholesale, Wholesale Rejection, World Doesn | 3 Comments

Fanciful Liars

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: December 8, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Alien Invasion, Aliens, Artifice, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Drinking Blood, Emotional Manipulation, Grease, Gullibility, Hobbits, Liar, Liars, Million Dollar Baby, Monsters, Mushrooms, Negative Baggage, Smoke And Shadows, Stupidity, Those Lies, True Fiction | 3 Comments

Q & A Time

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 5, 2011

Bob Bob had a few questions concerning my last post about Chasing the Moon. I thought about answering them by replying to comment itself, but then figured it might be better to answer them in their own featured post. Bob Bob asks: What inspired a) a Lovecraftian story, b) about the nihilism and absurdities of [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Absurdities Of Life, Absurdity, Bob Bob, Chasing The Moon, Contradiction, Eighth Novel, Human Perception, Incomprehensible, Insignificance, Monster, Monsters, Natural Progression, Nihilism, Powerlessness, Protagonist, Strange Concepts, Time And Space, Time Bob, Universal Theme | 3 Comments

The Genre Pit

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: December 16, 2010

Most science fiction is fantasy. Pure fantastic nonsense. Maybe our heroes ride around in space ships or fight mutants or have amazing psychic powers, but almost all of this stuff is no more realistic or believable than elves, dragons, and magic. One of the criticisms I’ve heard of Skyline, for instance, is that the premise of [...]