Category Archives: writing
SIX OF THE BEST… updates Disney could make to Beauty and the Beast
I’m seeing the movie tomorrow. Here’s some of what I’d like to happen.
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Tagged beast, beauty and the beast, belle, disney, fourth wall, gaston, lefou, lemony snicket, magic, prince, stockholm syndrome
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Buffy at 20
Five years ago, I wrote a fifteenth-anniversary retrospective of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Escape Pod. Today is the twentieth anniversary of Buffy, and what better way to celebrate it than also celebrating the five-year anniversary of my fifteenth-anniversary retrospective’s publication? Portrait … Continue reading
SIX OF THE BEST… methods of faster-than-light travel
Warp speed. Light speed. Ludicrous speed. Which is the best?
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Tagged Babylon 5, dune, embassytown, farscape, faster than light, folding space, grimspace, holtzmann, immer, jump drive, jump gate, leviathan, lightspeed, norman spinrad, purrgil, star trek, star wars, starburst, the void captain’s tale, warp drive
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SIX OF THE WORST… things about conference calls
I’m on a conference call as I type this.
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Tagged accents, conference call, facetime, globalmeet, hangouts, hi who just joined, lync, punctuality, skype, small talk, train of thought, webex, work-life balance
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SIX OF THE BEST… movies from 2016 not nominated for Best Picture
So yeah. The Oscars are this weekend. And only one film came out before October 25th of last year. Ridiculous. Let’s look at six other films that could have been considered.
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Tagged 10 cloverfield lane, academy award, best picture, captain america civil war, deadpool, educate and entertain, hidden figures, kubo and the two strings, me before you, million dollar baby, million dollar bullshit, Oscar, zootopia
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SIX OF THE BEST… ways to save money on coffee
I save money on coffee by not drinking it. That may not be an option for you. But fear not — I can help.
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Tagged breakfast, chocolate covered espresso beans, coffee, crappy coffee, creamer, flavored, gourmet, k-cup, keurig, starbucks
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SIX OF THE BEST… “if video games have taught me anything” lessons
What have we learned from playing video games? You’d be surprised.
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Tagged boss fights, enemies, hidden clues, mobile gaming, rare items, side quest, speed boost, video games
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SIX OF THE WORST… Enterprise design problems
If you really think about it, the starship Enterprise is pretty poorly designed.
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Tagged airplanes, alliance, bridge, cockpit, crashing, enterprise, firefly, heart of gold, martian successor nadesico, matt jefferies, millennium falcon, mon calamari, pylons, seatbelts, seatguru, spaceballs, star trek, star wars, the motion picture, windows
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SIX OF THE BEST… cliched narrative devices
The actual title of the column is a bit longer. It’s about narrative devices that have become so cliche that you really can’t use them in your writing anymore. Which is frustrating.
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Tagged alias, buffy, chekhov's gun, cliche, cozy catastrophe, family drama, firefly, game of thrones, i am your father, idiot plot, it was all a dream, iZombie, little detail, narrative device, oh you like that character, pop-culture reference, sherlock holmes, spoiler alert, squid in the mouth, supernatural, the oa, turkey city lexicon, white room syndrome
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SIX OF THE BEST… columns I wrote in 2016
Let me tell you about the columns I wrote in 2016. They were great columns. The columns had great topics, and they were really great. They’re going to do great things in the future.
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Tagged 45th president, best of, breasts, chuck tingle, fantastic beasts and where to find them, health insurance, kdka, presidential election, quotes, second wedding, selfie generation, two dots, verbed by the adjective noun, wedding, wedding planning, write what you know, writing
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SIX OF THE WORST… questions I was left with after watching The OA
All things considered, Netflix’s The OA should’ve been right up my alley. But I was left with many, many questions.
SIX OF THE BEST… sequels coming to theaters in 2017
Let’s talk sequels!
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Tagged batfleck, episode viii, guardians of the galaxy, infinity war, justice league, Kingsman, Logan, ragnarok, rogue one, sequel, sequels, the force awakens, thor, wolverine
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The Clockwork Russian: Free for Five Days!
If you haven’t already read it, you can now get my book The Clockwork Russian ABSOLUTELY FREE (until December 27). Now you have no excuse not to read it. Get it from Amazon at this here URL.
SIX OF THE BEST… questions to ask your nerdy friends after seeing Rogue One
As expected, I saw Rogue One on opening night — which is Friday, despite all the new metrics that only count Thursday opening box office receipts as a measure of success. Anyway, after seeing it and digesting it, I decided that, while … Continue reading
A Holiday Flash Story
I wrote an interstitial story in the Secret Santa universe and it was published in the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine’s 2017 holiday episode, along with six other stories. Hear it by clicking here.
SIX OF THE BEST… reasons to show fewer movie commercials
You might have heard that a little movie called Rogue One is coming out on Friday. If you haven’t, you clearly haven’t been anywhere near the media for the past… oh… year or so. Pretty much since the Monday after The Force … Continue reading
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Tagged batman v superman, clickbait, collateral beauty, cover girl, eight minutes, Entertainment Tonight, hunger games, jyn erso, movie, nissan rogue, rogue one, simon pegg, spiderman: homecoming, star trek, subway, the force awakens, the undiscovered country, trailer
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SIX OF THE WORST… self-promotion fails
I suck at self-promotion.
“Dreaming of Suzanne”
A vengeful ghost passes on the terror that was her life to the young couple renovating her home in “Dreaming of Suzanne”, now available in the December issue of Double Feature Magazine. This is a horror story. People are not nice … Continue reading
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Tagged double feature magazine, dreaming of suzanne, horror
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SIX OF THE BEST takes on Fantastic Beasts and Pokemon
This week’s Six of the Best column is spoileriffic, so if you haven’t seen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, you shouldn’t read it. If you have, though… read on! Last week, my daughter and I collaborated on a Six … Continue reading
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Tagged alolan raichu, bowtruckle, chamber of secrets, credence, dawn of justice, ensign ro, fantastic beasts, fantastic beasts and where to find them, furfrou, graves, grindelwald, harry potter, honest game trailers, kowalski, litleo, magearna, modesty, newt scamander, niffler, nitpick, obscurus, pokemon, reparo, Scooby Doo, sun and moon, sylveon, tina goldstein, ugly guy hot wife, volcanion
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Josh Roseman: Writer, Voice Guy, Dad, Human 