Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 3
Okay, okay. Unlike the last time I tried to analyse Act 2, Part 1, I’m actually writing this during the day, so I won’t get the urge to nod off before …
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Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 2
If you treat the Hollywood Formula as gospel, then James Cameron must be a sinner. By the end of Act One in the movie Aliens, he’s only identified one of the Formula’s …
Bug Hunt: A Practical Example of the Hollywood Method – Part 1
A few weeks ago, I caught an episode of the brilliant Writing Excuses podcast in which the hosts invited Lou Anders to talk about what he (and Dan Decker, whom …
Cross-Media Pollination:Forza Motorsport 4 in The Cairns Post
Further to my last post about my Forza Motorsport 4 review for Punch On Australia, I submitted an edited-down version to The Cairns Post – and it ran in yesterday’s …
How Forza Motorsport 4 Reminded Me to Trust that Things Work Out
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stamford University back in ’05. One of the three stories he told was how, instead …
The DIY Writer Manifesto
You’ve done good with your life. You’ve got a job, a house, a car, kids. Things are proceeding pretty well. But it’s the same process every day, week, month, year. Something …
What do Starship Troopers and Delivering Happiness Have in Common?
Seems like nothing, right? I mean, what could a 1958 military science fiction classic have to do with a 2010 corporate memoir? Yet when I read Tony Hsieh’s examination of …
How To Quit Something Without Quitting It
Quit. It’s short, heavy word, isn’t it? A sharp word for a sharp thing. Sever your ties with a Big Thing in your life. A job. A mortgage. Give up. Walk away. Run. …
Why Cryptum Is The First Halo Novel I’m Glad To Have Read
I came to the Halo novels at the tail-end of my interest in tie-in fiction. I hadn’t picked up a Star Trek book in years and the last Star Wars book I …
GTRF! Episode 2: Slamdance (Part 2 of 2)
Three weeks early comes the second episode of Get Talking, Rob Farquhar! Did you really think I’d leave you hanging on the edge of that cliff for so long? Listen …