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The HBO series Carnivale has been inspiring me. We recently picked up Carnivalé on DVD, and are enjoying season one. This series was broadcast on HBO in 2004 and only lasted two seasons before being cancelled, but not before attracting attention and kudos for its haunting stories, great cast, and movie-quality production values. Carnivalé presents . . . → Read More: On Creativity: Carnivalé and the Hero’s Journey  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Outsiders, Pop Culture, Process  adventure, design, fiction, Writing I’m still getting used to working with Scrivener, but its design is encouraging me to organize my manuscript in a better way. When I wrote Owe Nothing, I saw individual scenes first; specific exchanges between characters, or particular story “beats” that were important to me. However, I didn’t start with much of an overall framework . . . → Read More: On Process: How Scrivener is changing how I write… Have I said how much I am loving Scrivener? I am loving Scrivener. When I started writing my first novel, Owe Nothing, my initial tools were a notebook (the dead-tree-based, spiral-bound kind) and a variety of ballpoint pens. I wrote a dozen pages at a time, “long hand” as they say.I would write at home, . . . → Read More: On Process: Getting to Love Scrivener I’ve been revisiting and researching famous stories and hero myths, starting from the most recent, pop cultural stories and their influences, and then digging down deeper into personal territory, furrowing paths that lead me to my mother and father, and to my images and beliefs of myself. I’m a fan of pop culture, comic books, . . . → Read More: On Research and Creativity: Archetypes and Inspiration… One comment - (Comments are closed) Learning, Life, Pop Culture, Process, Research, Writing fiction, Life Story, novel, owe nothing, Writing I’ve only ever read snippets of Joseph Campbell’s books on heroes and heroic tales and myths, so I never expected to find influences in his works. Yet, the influence is there. Many other writers and film-makers *have* studied Campbell (not the least of them being George Lucas). So, in being a fan of modern epics . . . → Read More: On Research: Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey One comment - (Comments are closed) Learning, Process, Research, Writing adventure, Culture, fiction, Life Story, Writing Once in a while, an artist will inspire me, and make me appreciate connections to other artists, from the current time, or from a relatively distant point in the past. . . . → Read More: On Creativity: Multiple Media and a Billion Artists For me, the energy and desire to write always seems to get bogged down in the necessity to research. It’s just part of the process. In my fiction, a certain amount of factual research is needed in order to pin characters, places and things down in a realistic, believable way. When it works, and I . . . → Read More: On Writing: Chasing Echoes and Ghosts How the hell did writers ever do research in the days before the Internet? A lot of cultural and technological development took place to get us where we are today. I’m not exactly a digital native – I remember the days before Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. I remember the days before the web, and . . . → Read More: On Research: How did it ever get done before the Internet? Have gaming and interactive storytelling finally matured to a new level? This is the impression I’m left with after reading reviews and watching clips from Rockstar/Team Bondi’s impressive new game, “L.A. Noire”. Granted, I’m no gamer. Hell, I’m practically a neophyte. In the last year, I’ve probably spent more time playing Bejewelled and Angry Birds . . . → Read More: From Rockstars to Sleuths: Has 3D Game Storytelling Matured? 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Pop Culture, Publishing, Research, Writing Art, Culture, design, fiction, Life Story, publication, Writing Check out these posts by Tom Williams, a literary agent and biographer of hard-boiled crime fiction master, Raymond Chandler. Tom is reviewing the new Rockstar game, “LA Noire”: LA Noire and Raymond Chandler (Part 1) LA Noire and The Big Sleep
LA Noire and Raymond Chandler (Part 1) . . . → Read More: Game Noir? “LA Noire” and Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles |
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