Ah, the joys of writing. Well, not when you’re working on your capstone project, the culmination of the past 18 months, the paper that will lead me to that walk down the aisle in mortarboard and gown to the hallowed, somber notes of Pomp and Circumstance. How did that get to be the graduation processional…
I leaned across the desk and shook his hand. “Congratulations, young man,” I said. “You scored in the ninety seventh percentile on the comic book writing aptitude exam and so you’re my new Batman writer. I’ll need twenty-two pages by the end of the week.” He smiled and left my office. A moment later, I…
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We’re all storytellers. It’s the common currency of our social interactions. We use story to explain, to amuse, to communicate and a host of other tasks in our daily lives. Some of us get to make our living telling stories. Some of us are better at it than others. The problem with some people who…
CREEPING DAWN Rise of the Black Centipede By Chuck Miller Pro Se Productions 189 pages Chuck Miller is emphatically one of the bright new voices in the New Pulp Fiction movement and last year burst on to the scene with this book. It introduced the world to his truly mondo-bizarro hero, the Black Centipede. Describing…
The byline reads, “A Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Arts Salon.” And yet, here I sit, writing yet another dark story about Pittsburgh. The obvious question is, “Why?” Why don’t I set my stories in New York City, or one of the other four boroughs? Why do I keep taking you on a visit to Western Pennsylvania? Read…
As many recall, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman and I have been writing bible material for 2013’s After Earth film starring Will and Jaden Smith. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, its set in the future and we’ve had a ball filling in gaps and expanding on concepts found in the script. Early last week, Peter…
Writing can be fun. Most of the time. Even writing for profit. Or writing for fun like I do here. And some days, it’s not. You sit down with the best intentions and nothing happens or nothing good. Like this time. I’m in a bad mood, my cats are nagging me, I feel tired and…
New Pulp’s Table Talk returns! This week, Barry Reese, Mike Bullock, and Bobby Nash figure out what projects to work on and is it ever okay to work for free? Find out what the guys think at http://www.newpulpfiction.com/ Direct link: http://www.newpulpfiction.com/2012/04/table-talk-whats-it-worth.html?spref=fb
Pulp Ark Award Winning Best New Writer Sean Taylor was interviewed at http://toshigawa.com/?p=2292 “We talk turkey about writing bad-ass ninja chicks, working for Gene Simmons, and writing my favorite genre — the blender amalgamation of pulp, action, and lit,” Says Sean of the interview.
I’m convinced that there comes a time in every creator’s career when he or she has that one project that becomes the project. Be they a writer, artist, photographer, director or whatever, there comes a time when said creator realizes without a shadow of a doubt that they have created their baby. Their triumph. Their…
Every writer has his or her way of settling down to write. Mine is to bring a Diet Pepsi and a pack of Salem cigarettes – yeah, yeah, I know… my bad – to my computer desk. Oh, yeah, and slipping in a CD. Here’s the dope. I’m pretty much out of the loop when…
