Continuing my retrospective over the first four years of writing on this site, this week we’re taking a look at reviews. Like personal posts (which I spoke about last time), reviews were not something I had originally intended on featuring. I think my first review was probably for the movie Frozen. I wrote it spontaneously simply because I …
. The 2016 remake of the classic, 1959 film, Ben-Hur, is an ambitious production. Anytime a film crew attempts to retell the movie that holds the record for Academy Awards (at 11), they deserve credit. But did the risk pay off? Were they able to recapture the majesty and grandeur which swept away audiences more than 50 years ago? Or …
It was a dark and stormy night. Scurries crept, shadows lurked, stenches wafted, and slithers slunk. The crickets and toads dared not whisper, much less chirp or croak. The only disturbance in all that boggy, fetid tableau was the madman digging with his shovel. Covered in slop and mire from head to toe, he raised and hauled …
When I first started this website, I just wanted a place to share information about my writing and have a few links to my books. I didn’t really like the idea of blogging. I didn’t read any blogs and considered them a vast wasteland of frivolous musings. If I wanted to read something “real” I’d …
Time travel is one of those elusive treasures that is hard to get right in fiction, but when it works it can be amazing. But every book you have ever read is really a time travel book if you think about it. Because you are reading what someone thought in the past. Sometimes that person …
Off on another adventure, in other words, a new writing project! Exploring worlds, meeting new characters. Just another day in the life of a writer.
Today is the 62nd anniversary of the publishing of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic. The first installment of this trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published on July 29th, 1954. To celebrate this occasion, as well as to culminate the end of the 2016 Silmarillion Awards, myself, along with the hosts of the …
No one hears the brush of bare feet as a diminutive figure shuffles in from stage right. His eyes are two sunny side eggs on a skillet face as he takes in the menagerie of heroes and villains, lords and ladies assembled amidst the great Gondorian amphitheater. The vast auditorium itself, draped with banners and …
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