Writing

Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice...

Yeah… Let me kick this off by stating outright that I went into this movie knowing that it wasn’t going to be an Oscar winner. I knew...

Dishonored 3: A Man Can Dream

With the closure of Arkane Austin (nice job Xbox… How about you excise the tumors in the executive chairs that made the stupid fucking...

Elysium: An Introduction to Vella

Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since my last post. The good news is that it's because I've been hard at work on final...

Serialization: Its Future and My Crossroads

So, it’s been a while since I’ve talked about anything that has to do with writing (the printed word at any rate), and I thought it was...

God of War: Resurrection of an IP

Way back in 2005, a PlayStation exclusive hit the shelves, titled God of War. An ultra-violent hack-and-slash affair set against the...

Altered Carbon: Damn-Near Perfect

We’re going to be hitting both the book and the first season of the television show (more on the rest of that later…) here, so just be...

Television Writing: The Sitcom Model, and Losing the Plot as a Natural Progression

First off, let me say this: Below, I’ll be exploring a lot of the same concepts as I have in my post on the miniseries. So go check that...

Rosemary’s Baby: Classical Horror in an Era of Desensitization

Ask any writer, and they’ll tell you that one of the most important things you can do is read. It helps you decompress, it allows you to...

J.R.R. Tolkien: Brilliant but Dry

Like a lot of people my age, I was introduced to J.R.R. Tolkien through school. The Hobbit was on the reading list for English class, so...

H.P. Lovecraft: The Godfather of Horror/Science Fiction

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft...