A few months ago I wrote a post criticizing the movie Avatar, which has become the most read (and most contentious) post in my otherwise quiet corner of the Interwebs. I didn’t even think of it as particularly critical; I liked the movie, I just wished it had stretched further with the story. A couple [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Neil Gaiman’
Dances with Pocahontas in Space, Revisited
Posted in Writing, tagged Avatar, Ideas, James Cameron, Movies, Neil Gaiman, Storytelling on May 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Neil Gaiman, random, Storytelling, Writing on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t blogged much lately, because I’ve been too busy following Neil Gaiman’s advice, particularly the first 27 seconds: The stories that I’ve been writing over the past two weeks aren’t the kind that get edited, proofread and sold to a magazine. No, I’ve been writing the messy kind, the stories that I can’t write [...]
Halloween!
Posted in Life, tagged Halloween, Life, Neil Gaiman, Photos, random on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because I’m a total geek, and also because it was an easy costume, for Halloween I went as my favorite author: Anyone got it? Anyone? …. Okay, it’s Neil Gaiman. The most amusing incorrect guesses were “John Travolta” and “The Fonz.” (In their defense, particularly the guy who guessed The Fonz, it was a very [...]


