Chris Drew

Writer, Professor, Hoosier, Geek, Husband, and Dad. Often all at once.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Just wanna say, @axlrose, @Slash, @DuffMcKagan, that even though the STL show got cut short, the UYI deep cuts were absolute bangers. Thanks for making a 1.75 hour show a fantastic experience for this fan since 1987. And kudos to @richardfortus for killing your hometown show!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Me checking my 401k today:

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

I'm almost 30 years late, but I'm finally getting around to watching From the Earth to the Moon. Two episodes in, it's really good, but I'm specifically reminded that @kevinpollak is a goddamn national treasure.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Excited to share that my travel essay, "Shadow Rails," went live this morning in the newest issue of The Woven Tale Press! https://t.co/3EP6NYGjrv

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

I'm honestly a bit unnerved by the sheer amount of worldbuilding going on in car insurance commercials these days.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

The only hero in that meeting spoke English as a second language, but somehow still wasn't the worst English-speaker in the room.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Some good news: I got official notification today that I've been promoted to Full Professor here at Indiana State University, effective this fall!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

I'm thrilled to share a short(ish) story I've been trying to publish in one form or another since, oh, 2007 or so! https://t.co/jiA6GTrVeE

[Amanda Wong @amandawtwong]

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

@EddieTrunk I’ll agree with some other replies. My daughter’s a big fan, so I end up listening to songs from Guts pretty regularly in the car with her. It’s far more rock and roll than most of her pop contemporaries’ work. Not Metallica or anything, but real instruments and distortion!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Just got my plane ticket and rental car sorted for the Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference in November. Looking forward to seeing some old friends and plenty of new faces. It's been a while!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

@_lucyjbrown @BloomsburyLit As someone involved in CW Studies, I’m so appreciative of the work you and Bloomsbury have done assembling such a collection of books. When I started in the field 15 years ago, the stack of truly useful books wasn’t all that tall. :) It’s been discipline-changing!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

@sepinwall Fwiw, I’m a big Tolkien nerd who didn’t love Season One, but I enjoyed the first three episodes of Season Two because (so far, at least) they’ve ditched the Halbrand mystery box in favor of hewing more closely to Tolkien’s actual legendarium. Not perfect, but much better so far.

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Fantastic.

[Captain Disillusion @CDisillusion]

As you can hear in this full recording, the Wilhelm scream guy was doing a bad job until the recordist told him to do it better, resulting in the iconic sound effect.

So everyone, give your supervisor a li'l kiss on the cheek this Friday.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

The final episode of The Acolyte was probably the best of the lot, but the ending was dumb. Swing and a miss overall, I'm afraid.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

@devincf Every. Time.

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@CzaiaZach Thanks, Zach! @amykierzekash , @MDeanClark , and I are super proud of the book, but it's hard to know sometimes how it's been received at the classroom level, so I'm thrilled to see it in the hands of someone else pushing to bounds of secondary creative writing pedagogy! Kudos!

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

My essay, "Elegy for a Gargoyle," is live in the current issue of @TwistedVineLit! (It's on page 44, if you want to have a look.) Excited that this piece has found a good home! https://t.co/Mv0HNHFZXl

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Yet another order shipped and sold by @amazon that promised 1 day shipping but is now delayed an additional 5 days. Maybe. Who knows? The Prime subscription seems less and less worth it every day.

[Chris Drew @chrisdrew76]

Sometimes I think teaching is largely the art of telling students things they don't want to hear in ways that make them glad you told them.