Review: Kings

More than any other series in recent history, this one was pure awesome.

Yes, this series was better overall in acting and writing than Firefly.

Ian Shane must have made a deal with the devil because he is just that good.

My favorite episode was the Sabbath Queen. It effectly a ghost story and a deal with the devil story. Chilling and awesome.

There series has so much awesome in it. The scenes between Ian Shane and Brian Cox (playing Vesper Abedon the former King) were a delight.

You want to know who else was awesome in it? Macaulay Culkin. He plays a disgraced nephew of the King and he is full of creepy evil.

Sebastian Stan was awesome as Prince Jack and handled the secrely gay storyline with a steady hand.

I am very sad. I loved this show and it recieved very little attention. The complete series is available on netflix and I highly recommend it, but you'll never be able to watch Home Alone again.

Review: Kings

More than any other series in recent history, this one was pure awesome.

Yes, this series was better overall in acting and writing than Firefly.

Ian Shane must have made a deal with the devil because he is just that good.

My favorite episode was the Sabbath Queen. It effectly a ghost story and a deal with the devil story. Chilling and awesome.

There series has so much awesome in it. The scenes between Ian Shane and Brian Cox (playing Vesper Abedon the former King) were a delight.

You want to know who else was awesome in it? Macaulay Culkin. He plays a disgraced nephew of the King and he is full of creepy evil.

Sebastian Stan was awesome as Prince Jack and handled the secrely gay storyline with a steady hand.

I am very sad. I loved this show and it recieved very little attention. The complete series is available on netflix and I highly recommend it, but you'll never be able to watch Home Alone again.

WIP: "Recovery"

This is a story that has been gestiating for a long time.

I based a little of the story based on a friend that has had a hard road, but always managed to get back up again.

This story is an experiment for me since it involves second person POV and the main character suffers from synesthesia.

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WIP: "Recovery"

This is a story that has been gestiating for a long time.

I based a little of the story based on a friend that has had a hard road, but always managed to get back up again.

This story is an experiment for me since it involves second person POV and the main character suffers from synesthesia.

( Read more... )

Research More

Stolen from seanan_mcguire.

This made me laugh and feel better. :)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the speculative fiction world, if I could offer you only one tip for the future, research would be it. The long-term benefits of research have been proved by scholars and scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the freedom and insanity of your youth. Scratch that: you won't understand the freedom and insanity of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in twenty years you'll look back at your fanfic and your first drafts and recall in a way you can't grasp right now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really were.

You're not bad at this as you imagine. You're not as good at it, either.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to correct your spelling through interpretive dance. The real troubles in your career are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you on the Monday after a five-day convention.

Write one thing every month that scares you.

Doodle.

Don't be nasty when critiquing others, don't put up with people who are nasty when critiquing you. Revise. Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, but the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old fan mail, throw away your old reviews.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to spend your life writing. The most interesting writers I know didn't know at twenty-two what they wanted to write. Some of the most interesting forty-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of sleep. Be kind to your wrists, you'll miss them they're gone.

Maybe you'll publish, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll write novels, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll wind up remaindered, maybe you'll make the New York Times Best-Seller List six books in a row. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much. Don't berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, and so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your mind. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, because it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dream, even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read directions on how to write, even if you don't follow them. Do not read Amazon reviews, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your readers, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your fellow writers; they are the best link to your sanity and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but there are a precious few you should hold onto. You'll know them when you see them. Apologize, even when you think you might be right. Take apologies gracefully. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Go to the San Diego International Comic Convention once, but leave before it makes you insecure. Go to a small, intimate literary convention once, but leave before it makes you egotistical. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, reviewers will pan you, you too will get old, and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young royalties were plentiful, editors were accessible, and writers respected their readers. Respect your readers. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a movie deal, maybe you have a successful series, but you never know for sure when either one will run out.

Don't mess too much with your early drafts, or by the time you're finished, they will look artificial.

Be careful whose advice you take, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past out of the wastepaper bin, wiping it off, rewriting the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's actually worth.

But trust me on the research.

—with apologies to Mary Schmich, of "Wear Sunscreen" fame.

Research More

Stolen from seanan_mcguire.

This made me laugh and feel better. :)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the speculative fiction world, if I could offer you only one tip for the future, research would be it. The long-term benefits of research have been proved by scholars and scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the freedom and insanity of your youth. Scratch that: you won't understand the freedom and insanity of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in twenty years you'll look back at your fanfic and your first drafts and recall in a way you can't grasp right now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really were.

You're not bad at this as you imagine. You're not as good at it, either.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to correct your spelling through interpretive dance. The real troubles in your career are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you on the Monday after a five-day convention.

Write one thing every month that scares you.

Doodle.

Don't be nasty when critiquing others, don't put up with people who are nasty when critiquing you. Revise. Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, but the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old fan mail, throw away your old reviews.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to spend your life writing. The most interesting writers I know didn't know at twenty-two what they wanted to write. Some of the most interesting forty-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of sleep. Be kind to your wrists, you'll miss them they're gone.

Maybe you'll publish, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll write novels, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll wind up remaindered, maybe you'll make the New York Times Best-Seller List six books in a row. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much. Don't berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, and so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your mind. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, because it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dream, even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read directions on how to write, even if you don't follow them. Do not read Amazon reviews, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your readers, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your fellow writers; they are the best link to your sanity and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but there are a precious few you should hold onto. You'll know them when you see them. Apologize, even when you think you might be right. Take apologies gracefully. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Go to the San Diego International Comic Convention once, but leave before it makes you insecure. Go to a small, intimate literary convention once, but leave before it makes you egotistical. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, reviewers will pan you, you too will get old, and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young royalties were plentiful, editors were accessible, and writers respected their readers. Respect your readers. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a movie deal, maybe you have a successful series, but you never know for sure when either one will run out.

Don't mess too much with your early drafts, or by the time you're finished, they will look artificial.

Be careful whose advice you take, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past out of the wastepaper bin, wiping it off, rewriting the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's actually worth.

But trust me on the research.

—with apologies to Mary Schmich, of "Wear Sunscreen" fame.