A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part II (See Part I)

I picked up “On Writing” and looked for inspiration.  This was a re-read for me, when I first got the book, I kept thinking, “well this guy just doesn’t understand me as a writer (even though I wasn’t a writer yet, I was a wanna be).  Turns out, he understood me too well and I didn’t like it at the time.  Ah, the lessons we learn as we grow.

A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part I:

Forget the circle of life, how about the shotgun of shoulda.  Sometimes you have an inspiration on writing because a single little thing pops up on your radar and you see it and you are off and running.  Sometimes a friend says, “You know you should write about…” Sometimes you just have to get some words down and you hope the topic comes to you after you flounder a bit in the writing pool.  But then there are times when the universe gives you so many head slaps you just know you best get to that topic, even if it doesn’t make any sense as to why now.  This post is one of the latter.

The Adventures of Writer Boy: A look at pitching a script at Screenwriting Expo
(First published in part on Blog Critic Magazine)
Writer Boy was battling his arch nemesis, Captain Disorder.  Captain Disorder was a short villain with a Napoleon complex.  Writer Boy simply refused to submit to Captain Disorder’s demand to be called by his full [...]

Review of The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier - 5 @@@@@ at-a-boys As first seen on BlogCritics Magazine. Writer Boy was having a less than thrilling realization. As an emerging writer and not a fella who felt he had yet conquered his chosen craft of being a wordsmith, he had been [...]

I want to start with an admission; I am a recovering lawyer. No that doesn’t mean I don’t drink, hell, I am Irish, a Writer AND a Lawyer, I HAVE to drink. “Recovering Lawyer” means I used to practice law. Don’t hate me yet; I USED to practice law and I only [...]

TotallyWrite Development Suite - LTW Productions Canada Inc. Review - @@@@ at-a-boys
It would be a better story if I could say I started writing on an old typewriter with a used ribbon and had to ink in letters that didn’t work on the keyboard, but this review is non-ficton, or at least faction.
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Theasauraus. A good one is harder to find than it is to even spell it
Word up! (Apologies to my urban buddies). Word (the Microsoft Office affliated product) sucks in the thesaurus department, they didn’t even bother to put some of Microsoft’s or Apple’s own terminology in there, but this isn’t [...]

Save the Cat, Software and Book - @@@@@ at-a-boys

I am going to age myself here. I have been using computers since monitors had back ground screens that were black and letters that were either gold or green flashing dots. I remember when Word Perfect (it was NOT perfect but it did do words) had that really odd blue (Click on title to read entire post.)