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Avril Lavigne Channeling Tank Girl? I Am Down With This Combination. 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
As predicted at the tail end of my Die Hard post last week, blogging service is somewhat irregular this week and we’ll be picking up on my narrative deconstruction of Bruce Willis’s greatest movie rol...
What Writers Ought to Know About Die Hard, Part Two 13 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
So my friend Kevin was in town this weekend to talk about a project he’s putting together, which meant we spent a lot of time talking about narrative structure and the way character works and how to d...
A Call for Reader Questions: Dancing Monkey 2013 8 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
If you fire up the time-machine and travel back to August of 2012, you’ll notice that about this time of year my life gets increasingly hectic. Weekends that used to be free for writing and bloggery g...
What Writers Ought to Know About Die Hard (Part One) 6 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Normally, when I sit down to write a Trashy Tuesday Writing School post, it’s because I’m trying to redeem some element of sitting down and watching a terrible movie. Films like the Josh Kirby series,...
Pints 30 Jul 2013 | 04:25 am
The text message hits after ten PM, but I answer it ’cause I’m still awake and ’cause that’s what I do. It says, pub?, and I’m all, hell yes, but instead I text back about putting on clothes, ’cause I...
How Are You Rocking the Casbah This Week? 23 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
I’m going to be a bit scarce around the online world this week. We’re launching the all-new AWMonline next Monday (fingers crossed) and there’s a few projects I need to catch up on after focusing all ...
Big Focus: The Calendar Trick That’s Saving My Bacon This Year 18 Jul 2013 | 05:25 am
July 2013 in all its Colour-Coded Splendor I have to write 750 words a day between now and October 24th, otherwise bad things will happen. The kind of bad things where you end up emailing an editor a...
Window 17 Jul 2013 | 05:30 am
There’s this window in my office that looks out over the breezeway, and every day I come in and stare at it and wonder how hard it’d be to break the big panes of glass with an office chair tossed from...
How Do You Give Up Being Busy? 15 Jul 2013 | 04:20 am
If you asked me how I’m doing for the last six months, there’s pretty good odds I told you I was either busy, really busy, or completely fucking manic depending on how well we know each other. It’s th...
A Shift in the Creative Paradigm 13 Jul 2013 | 07:30 am
From the latest installment of the Lefsetz Letter, tracing the changes that have occurred in our lifetime. As always, Bob Lefsetz is writing about the music industry, but if you’re a writer and you’re...
