Tag Archives: Notion

Call to Action

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 7, 2013

In today’s post, I’m going to get honest here, folks. It might sound like I’m complaining or disappointed or just disgruntled, so before I begin, let me say for the record that I love doing what I do. I have more success than I have any right to expect, and I know there are literally [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged Cards On The Table, Contrary, Egotism, Fans, Genre, Love, Nine Books, Plateau, Sake, Space Adventure, Traditional Fantasy, Undying Gratitude, Ups, Ups And Downs, Urban Fantasy | 13 Comments

Cage Matched

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 30, 2013

The world is one giant complicated mess, and as humans, we aren’t wired to deal with that. Given a chance, we will always simplify, reduce, and otherwise ignore rather than deal with possibilities. This is a gross generalization, and not everyone does this all the time. But we all do it sometime. And some of [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Action Hero, Aesthetic Choices, Aesthetically, Bad Guys, Beasts, Cop, Copycats, Gross Generalization, Heck, Lethal Weapon, Men In Black, Pacific Rim, Religious Connotations, Ripoff, Robots, Set Pieces, Tango And Cash, Transformers, Waves | Leave a comment

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, Human Beings, Justification, Misery, Obscurity, Paradox, Realism, Realist, Reflex, Reprieve, Sad Ending, Universe, Wholesale, Wholesale Rejection, World Doesn | 3 Comments

The Stuff of Legends

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: March 7, 2013

Hey, everybody. I’m trying to build my audience, and so I’m trying to write and release more free short stories. I don’t know if it’ll work, but it’s worth a shot, right? This story has three elements suggested via Facebook. I wrote it in the space of a few hours. I did that for a [...]