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My Man Loomis: How I’ve Been Slowly Learning How To Draw
Around four years ago (wow, has it been that long?) I started working on a graphic novel. The pictures were rudimentary at best, the characters all drawn as stick figures with different hats. For someone who had not a single artistic bone in his body, I’d say it came out rather well. But it definitely wasn’t good enough.
Query Tracker – Taking the Fuss Out of Finding and Submitting to Agents
Query Tracker is a killer querying website that gives users the ability not only set up an agenting wishlist, but also to keep track of several queries at once (a la SubmissionMojo and Duotrope).
Beauty, Simplicity, Serenity – OmmWriter Dana and Its Distraction Free Writing Refuge
Head off into the depths of the internet for writing advice and chances are you’ll come back with a whole lot of contradicting instructions and a new list of neologisms that make no sense when you really think about them.
Scripting and Sketching: An All-In-One-Tool
Streamlining and simplifying the creation of content is always at the forefront of my mind. While this may sometimes be mistaken for laziness, I like to think of it as “optimizing.”
Finding Hashtags That Are More Than Just Annoying/Ironic/Irrelevant Cries For Attention
I’m not going to lie. Up until recently (I’m talking within the past couple of years) I really, really hated hashtags. They popped up across all kinds of social medias, […]
Haunting, Tragic, Wonderfully Bittersweet – Neil Gaiman’s “Ocean at the End of the Lane”
One thing that I’ve noticed, time and time again, is how damn good Neil Gaiman is at writing an ending. From Sandman to Neverwhere to The Graveyard Book, Gaiman wraps […]
Visual Conflagrations
Drawing inspiration from the world around us is essential for writers and artists. We take our cues and our nuances from the words and movements of both the organic as […]
[Top 5 Graphic Novels] That Set The Bar Impeccably High For The Comic Book Industry
San Diego Comic Con kicks off tonight! I’ll be heading on down there this very evening and chatting with some of the locale who have burrowed deep into the heart […]
A Cinematic Experience Like No Other (“The Last of Us” Review)
Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us has effectively set a new standard for what gamers and critics alike should consider a “good game.” By combining wicked realistic graphics and emotionally driven […]
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