All I can say is that it’d better be a lot funnier than I’m finding the actual fact of aging to be.
A whole lot.
Okay, that’s pretty funny.
LB: Billy Crystal is Getting $4 mil to Write a Book on Aging
Tag: writing
LB Sees the Most Recent Episode of HAWAII FIVE-0
by Larry Brody
One of the most recent episodes anyway.
No, I can’t remember what it was about. But TV Guide can: “Five-0 investigates when a teen girl is murdered by a professional hit man. Steve and his team must first determine why she was a target before they can locate her killer.” Sound a tad familiar, police procedural lovers?
Home is the Hunter
Who says being able to buy just about any unlawful ultra-powerful type gun is a bad thing?
Look what my Tavor TAR-21 just bagged me:
All Hail the Hack Writer – Especially This Hack Writer
The 6 Most Important Sci-Fi Ideas (Were Invented by a Hack) – by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is credited as one of the most influential science fiction books ever written, having introduced ideas like super-advanced aliens coming to Earth and said aliens hating the shit out of us and trying to wipe us out. Even though it was published as a novel all the way back in 1898, it’s seen as the blueprint for every alien invasion blockbuster released more than a century later. This article isn’t about that book.
In the same year, a writer named Garrett P. Serviss crapped out an unauthorized sequel to Wells’ book called Edison’s Conquest of Mars, in which famed inventor Thomas Edison turns the tables on the aliens from The War of the Worlds by flying to Mars and killing all of them with his revenge boner — it’s the Victorian-era equivalent of shameless straight-to-DVD crapfests like Transmorphers and Titanic II.
Jack London Wanted to Mentor You
So once upon a time the writer of Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, White Fang, and tons of other books and stories was just another guy who wanted to write. Here’s his view of what he did to make himself into something more:
Call of the Wild: Jack London’s Advice on Honing Your Creative Craft – by Scott McDowell
Sometimes its hard to know where to start. In John Barleycorn, Jack London’s vivid memoir, he describes a predicament familiar to many an aspiring artist: “My difficulty was that I had no one to advise me. I didn’t know a soul who had written or who had ever tried to write. I didn’t even know one reporter.”