During the course of my graduate work, I am seeing increasingly frequent mention of Joseph Campbell and his work in cultural mythology. An understanding of the Heroic Cycle is important for all storytellers, especially writers. However, Campbell’s work infers through its very existence that all humans share the ability to tell a story or at [...]
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Cultural Mythology: Lite
Posted: 28th July 2010 by Eric in Fiction, writingTags: Christopher Vogler, Hero's Journey, Heroic Cycle, Joseph Campbell, mythology, Star Wars
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Summer came the same very year in the north. Started out slow, in tiny bursts. Flowers and trees seemed to shoot up from the earth when you had your back turned. Every time you scrutinized, they froze. Then, the bursts got longer and longer, the flora less and less shy, until finally the whole of [...]
It’s live! The first issue of the interactive magazine: Aviator! Featuring (among others) my short story, Space Whales. Check it out, read it. Tell the Aviator people you loved it and want to see more of me! (flash based)
Anyhow, here it is…Space Whales via Aviator interactive magazine!
Tell them how much you loved my story here!
Content is (still) King
Posted: 24th March 2010 by Eric in Web Content, writingTags: com, content, draw, layout, planned, SEO, small business, uses, videos, Web Content, youtube
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The technology one uses to implement their online presence, brilliant flash-driven database apps, rusty-gear cranking CGI or smooth DHTML layers is really irrelevant when compared to the content being delivered.
Consider some of the most popular, or at least, oft visited websites: Youtube.com and Amazon.com. Youtube.com specializes in delivering video content. That’s all. Sure, there’s built [...]
The Movie "Role-Models" plagiarized me!
Posted: 20th March 2010 by Eric in Uncategorized, film, writingTags: film, plagiarism, role-models, screenwriting
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I’ve been plagiarized!
How many of you have seen the recent film “Role Models?” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430922/) You’ll notice it had five writers working on the script. In film lingo, “and” means the two worked together on the project. The “ & “ means the second person re-wrote the script. When you see something like this:
Writing credits
(WGA)
Paul Rudd
(screenplay) [...]
Book Review: Blood Pact
Posted: 17th December 2009 by Eric in Books, Fiction, reviews, writingTags: Blood Pact, Dan Abnett, Gaunt's Ghosts, Pulp Sci-fi, science fiction, warhammer 40k
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Dan Abnett strikes again with another thrilling installment of the Gaunt’s Ghosts saga. After their marginal victory at Hinzerhaus, the Tanith First and Only are given some much needed downtime. Two years of it.
This story picks up with a Commissar-Colonel Gaunt wondering just how soft he’s gotten. One is reminded of the opening scenes [...]
The (T)ruth about blogging…
Posted: 1st December 2009 by Eric in Uncategorized, writingTags: blogging, blogosphere, experts, plumbing, writing
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…Or the Delicate Art of the Human Spectacle
Back in the primordial mist of self-indulgent web-publishing, blogs were a sort of anonymous, online journal, where someone could write their terrible secrets, post their gruesome thoughts, rant about their hatreds, gush about their crushes, wax vitriolic about their employers, politicians and auto-mechanics.
Somewhere along the way, a very [...]