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Stupid Ideas I Haven’t Done: Wasted Opportunities
David Bowie via last.fm Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and...
View ArticleAmbien Review #6: Labyrinth
The first sentence of this review (the synopsis part) was written not-on-Ambien, which I guess is fairly obvious, but maybe worth mentioning. Also, I wrote this the same night as Shutter Island, and...
View ArticleMore than the Sum of its Parts: Writing Beyond Tropes and Easter Eggs
When a book comes out, the publisher or the author will often promote it by describing it as a list of tropes, identities, and references. “Here’s my new novel, A Groan of Stone and Bone. It has...
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