After a move across country I have a new job, new apartment, new pretty much everything. So I'm slowly easing back into the writing game. It's time to shake the cobwebs off and get to it.
@OpieAlan I love the subject matter, the setting, and the story but I feel like compromises we're made between the writing and the studios. There's so much there to work with and that could've been done but at some points it just feels like an average Hollywood horror movie. Top ten though
I'm not saying he did the right thing, but you use my wife and her illness for a punch line count yourself lucky if all you get is a bruised cheek and ego. #WillAndChris
Me: You're going to be a fun short story I can knock out in a couple days.
Story: Naw mate, I'm gonna long af. With tons of backstory and character development.
Me: Ok, but I need you to be a short story, don't be so extra.
Story: THAT'S ALL I KNOW HOW TO BE!
I've been avoiding Twitter, being slightly more active on Instagram, my bad? I really don't have a ton of things to share at the moment. Still working on the short story collection, still working a "9-5". Everything else is either to bland or to early to share.
It's official: I have just (and this an understatement) made the single greatest purchase of my life; fulfilling a yearning that has resided in my soul since I was 10 years old.
I'll show you when it gets here. In the meantime, feel free to guess.
1) I'm not sorry, I hate expositing. Really. When I read a story or watch a film and there's any exposition, it immediately pulls me out of the narrative. It's almost as if the fourth wall is broken and the storyteller is starring me in the face explaining their creation like
3) answers or just let those bits of dialogue create the world around me. I say all this as a round about way of saying if you read my stories, expect to just be dropped in the world with little to no explanation outside of what would naturally come about. I'm trying to entertain
2) I'm a child. Ok, maybe not EVERY time, sometimes it's done well. But for the most part and I do mean most, exposition is a world breaker. I genuinely enjoy opening a book or watching a film and being exposed to something new and having to figure it out on my own or wait for
I hope someone, someday, makes you smile. A big smile, from ear to ear, and two inches deep. A smile so big it makes your shirt match your crimson lips.