Deep Sky Anchor

That feeling when a man has asked you to help him learn how to be better by pointing out when he does something wrong, and yet when you do so, he makes it all about his feelings instead of the actual thing.

I rewatched Dead Again (1991) for the first time in ages, and that script is tight. So smart and well-written. So, I looked up the writer’s other credits…

Scott Frank wrote Logan (2017). Yeah. Continue reading “From Dead Again to Queen’s Gambit”

Out of context quote: “Well, on the bright side, there’s already butter everywhere anyway.”

New game! Add/change a word to make a song furry…

—“Walk Like an Egyptian Mau” by the Bengals
—“Dog Only Knows” by The Beach Dogs
—“I Want to Hold Your Paw” by The Beagles
—“My Favorite Strings” by the Von Catt Family
—“The Boxer” by Simon & Garfield

I’ve gotten to the part of Star Wars: The Clone Wars concurrent with Revenge of the Sith, and wow, it is really, really cool how all the threads of the show and the threads of a movie from fifteen years ago are all tying together, braiding so beautifully.

Also, I love Ahsoka.

About a year ago, I decided that I loved Star Wars enough to try watching The Clone Wars again… now I’m up to the last few episodes, and it’s hard to believe that I ever knew Star Wars without Ahsoka Tano being part of it. She’s becomes one of my absolute favorite characters.

I did a full editing pass tonight on the titular novella from my collection, “Commander Annie and Other Adventures,” upcoming from Argyll Productions, and that story is still so close to my heart.

The main character is hard-edged, prickly, & so heart-breakingly lovable.

“Commander Annie” is me when I was twelve, flaws and all, and re-reading the journey I wrote for her… it takes me down into one of the deepest wounds from my childhood, and then pulls me back up from it.

I can’t wait for people to be able to read this story.

I dreamed I was given the opportunity to write a media tie-in novel for a very successful IP I’d never heard of involving fairies, but the book had to be done in three days.

So I was trying to write 20k words/day while also researching an entire book/movie/TV show franchise. Continue reading “Pressure Leaking Into Dreams”

One of the most powerful tools I’ve learned in life is the ability to separate the feelings I have while arguing with hostile men from the feelings they like to tell me I’m having.

If you’re a woman and a hostile man arguing with you makes guesses about your feelings (a REALLY COMMON tactic) then it doesn’t matter if some of the guesses are vaguely close to right. Dude’s still guessing, and he doesn’t have any business doing so.

Out of context quote: “The best colleges will have the best knives. And the best enemies.”