I love the UK version of The Office. There’s a nasty, horrible, evil bent to it that simply isn’t quite there in the US version, and you are […]
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Want “alien” writing for your fiction or game? Check out Dscript.
I got an e-mail out of the blue from Matthew DeBlock, which seemed… strange. My name is Matthew DeBlock, I am a Canadian currently living in China. I […]
racism / religion / writing / writing the other
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Writing the Other: Taking a Lesson from Les blanches exotiques
I’ve been following Les blanches exotiques for a few weeks now. It’s usually hilarious (to me) because it’s so damn spot-on. It also flips the discrimination narrative in […]
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Where Inception Saves The Cat – and What Writers Can Learn From It
Yes, of course there are spoilers. I finally watched Inception. And yes, I thought it was very, very pretty. It was a pretty straightforward adventure story with a […]
self-doubt / writing
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The Writer’s (Abundance of) Self-Doubt
While I was wrestling with the events that led to “The Writer’s (Lack) of Self-Confidence” on Saturday, @Downsideupgirl brought this Kevin Smith tweet to my attention (thanks hon!): […]
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The Writer’s (Lack) of Self-Confidence
I got to sit in on a panel this morning about the life of a writer. The moderator, the very classy editor Jerry Gordon, asked what we thought […]