Writing – Elegant Entropy

Interrogation

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016Movies, Writinginterrogation, screenplay

So, a few years ago, I wrote a screenplay. Here it is. Let me know what you think. Interrogation

Out of character: An interlude | Imaginary Atlas: Part 6

August 21, 2013December 24, 2014WritingImaginary Atlas, world building

We interrupt our regular column to bring you this brief interlude. When I talk with friends or other writers or whomever about my geeky world-building projects, the general response is a sort of half smile,

Paint the sky with stars | Imaginary Atlas: Part 5

August 7, 2013December 24, 2014WritingImaginary Atlas, world building, Writing

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T.S. Eliot We have prepared our canvas. Time to paint. So far, I mostly just been sketching, broadly, an outline about the sort of fictional setting I want to

The quanta of culture | Imaginary Atlas: Part 4

July 15, 2013December 24, 2014WritingImaginary Atlas, world building, Writing

When I was a kid, my dad gave me a pint jar filled with coins. Most of the coins were old, some dating back to the 1910s. The best coin in the bunch was a

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

October 30, 2012December 24, 2014Culture, Fiction, Movies, WritingStar Wars

So, Disney has bought Lucasfilm, and a new Star Wars film is coming out in 2015. I’m not sure whether to be excited or terrified. I was 14 the summer that Star Wars came out.

Random notes

August 27, 2012December 24, 2014Culture, WritingRandom notes

I am chipping away at Reason to Be, hoping to find the novel that already existed in the big block of words. Copy editing is hard, especially when it’s your own work. For whatever reason,

Dreamtime returns

February 26, 2012December 24, 2014WritingDreamtime, science fiction, Star Wars, world building, Writing

I’ve been thinking about the future lately. I mean that in a purely science-fictional sense (of course). The real initial event that really got me thinking about the future was a video a fellow did,

It’s not easy to be me

July 26, 2010December 24, 2014Comics, WritingComics, Superman, Writing

If I were writing Superman, the first thing I would try to remember is that, although he looks like us, he isn’t one of us. Superman is not human. He is an alien from a

It’s all about me | Imaginary Atlas: Part 3

July 21, 2010December 24, 2014WritingImaginary Atlas, world building, Writing

It’s all about me Since the dawn of history, and likely a lot further back than that, people have thought of our world as the center of the universe. In the Ptolemaic model, it was

It’s supposed to be bought | Imaginary Atlas: Part 2

July 21, 2010December 24, 2014WritingImaginary Atlas, world building, Writing

Bartender: That green beer you’re peddlin’ just ain’t any good. Capone’s man: It ain’t supposed to be good! It’s supposed to be bought. The Untouchables, 1987 When I lose my mind and foolishly allow myself