There is an urge. An urge to display, an urge to seek validation, an urge to seek approval, a most compelling urge to showcase the work in its raw form, to exhibit the wonderful monster, that mostrous wonder that your genius has been carefully, steadily assembling in the privacy of your attic’s darkness. It’s strongest now that [...]
I woke up around 4 this morning having decided to finally finish Crash. Today’s the day–God willing. As I lay awake earlier, outlining the final moments of the next Not Quite Unreal installment, I realized that I’m so close to the end, I can almost smell the burning tire, hear the Mazda 3 hood crunching, feel [...]
From their official press release: Grasshopper Junction is back with a fresh new sound, and a brand new spoken word album! Entitled “Your Guardian Genius”, the album boasts of 15 new tracks following a lyric sequence the band described as “an elegy to the death of the youth’s brilliance, a celebration of today’s mediocrity”. Grasshopper Junction has [...]
Previously, I have shared with you a playlist of music that helped me in writing “Roles: A Not Quite Unreal Novel”. Now, for the first time ever, I’m going to reveal the playlist I’m using to help me write the second Not Quite Unreal novel: “Crash”.
There. Can you figure out what’s going to happen in [...]
Music plays a big part in my writing process. As Stephen King said in “On Writing (Memoirs of the Craft)”, listening to music loudly is a form of shutting out the world. This holds true for me. As my family would attest, when I’m elbow deep in writing, my room is a formidable fortress impenetrable [...]
What’s up, bitches and bulldawgs? I know I haven’t really been updating this blog here, so I’m going to make up for that by coming up with something very, very special. From here on now, I’ll be updating this blog as I write the sequel to the first Not Quite Unreal Novel. As I’ve revealed a few [...]
