Let’s make this a fast one. John Hughes is dead. We all know that. We all know it sucks. Was he great? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In that way, in the way that he spoke to our experiences and couched real life in his own special brand of comedy, he was kind of our generation’s […]
The good news? You really can do it yourself when it comes to telling stories and making the products of those stories. The bad news? Nobody really knows what that means, how to do it, or what the result will be. (Real quick: Marty and I are obviously DIYing it with Shadowstories, and Fridays over […]
Holy crappin’ crappity crap! Another blog post? Two in one day? Say it isn’t so! It is so, Internuts. I totally forgot that this is Chuck Wendig Day! Okay, don’t get excited, White Wolf isn’t having a sale — they did that last year, and that’s an old link, but I don’t see any reason […]
Come with me on a little journey. Let’s say you take an earwig. You know the earwig, right? Little cockroach-colored, pincer-butted freak bug? You’ve heard the rumors — earwigs like to burrow into people’s ears, lay eggs in the brain, build condos in your cerebral cortex, and so on, and so forth. You think those […]
I’m back, slapping you in the face with Hard Troofs. Today’s hard truth? As a writer, Shame is your buddy. And we’re capitalizing the ‘S’ because it sounds like a name. Shane. Shamus. Shame. Herr Doktor Guilten von Shamenstein! Ahem. You don’t think shame (okay, we’ll go with lowercase ‘s’) is your buddy. It runs […]
What the hell are you doing over here? You’re at the wrong place. Shit’s going on elsewhere! Don’t you read the newspapers? The twitterfeeds? The crazyspaces? Shadowstories: The Infi-Net Revolution just went live. You know? The thing I’ve been yammering about for like, a month, now? It’s up. Go. Go! Hurry. Before it’s too late.