Category: Writer’s Blog

“I don’t know if I like that…” When you’re a writer, sometimes you’re going to hear this or a variation on it from people you’ve asked for feedback. And you may instinctively get defensive. After all, we tend to be […]
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If you’ve been paying attention to our occasional murmurings here and elsewhere, you’ll know that 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of Zombie Ranch, and that one of the events we intend to commemorate that is bundling Episodes/Issues 8-15 into a […]
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I may have written about this before. Get ten years of nearly weekly blogs under your belt and it can be a bit of a blur… but heck, anything important enough to write about once can arguably bear repeating. So […]
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Ha, so, that sickness I’d been struggling with? Turns out I had a bona fide case of pneumonia! I don’t think it was pneumonia for the entire run but after feeling somehow worse last week at around the time Dawn […]
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Now, yours truly suffers from a shopping list of chronic ailments, not the least of which is being allergic to varying degrees to just about everything in the plant kingdom. You can imagine how I’ve been doing in the wake […]
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Gotta be honest, with this virus my head right now feels like a haze of fiberglass being casually stress tested by an ogre. So in lieu of my usual ramblings I’m just going to present 10 minutes of baby goats […]
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If you haven’t noticed, yours truly is a big comic book nerd, and has been for many, many years. Decades, even. In fact, if my occasionally not-so-great memory serves, this traces back to circa 1980 when a very young Clint […]
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Last Friday evening we were part of Pasadena’s Art Night, and when I say part I mean it: the events were scattered over many locations throughout our hometown. Our corner of it was in the Central Library, and was indeed […]
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So I’ve always marveled at hearing of writers out there who stubbornly still used typewriters for their work. Harlan Ellison (RIP) was notorious for this, as far as I know still cranking away at one of them until the day […]
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  In the zombie genre the name Umbrella conjures up the shadiest of shadowy biotech megacorporations, whose nefarious business practices would perhaps even cause Carter J. Burke to blanch. This is not about them but the other Umbrella being talked […]
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By which I don’t mean heroin, thankfully. No, 2019 has begun and this past weekend was our first convention of the year at the Long Beach Comic Expo. I think I’ve mentioned before that last year was kind of rough […]
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As a sequential writer I’ve found that I have to be prepared at some point to forge ahead with your instincts and present ongoing development of your characters and events, with no further luxury of leaving things in what physics […]
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So I’m still not very good at drawing. Here’s a situation where that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Behold Drawception.com, which has apparently been around for many years but which I stumbled upon recently by pure accident. It is described […]
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This is the kind of topic that probably deserves more than a little discussion, but seeing as this week has us in some distractions I’ll just start off for now with the thesis statement, so to speak, and then maybe […]
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So longtime readers know that occasionally I like to experiment with Zombie Ranch, which I conceived as a fairly straightforward story — except when it isn’t. Media interludes abound, sometimes in a single page and sometimes occupying entire segments of […]
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I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the show Happy Days was a big deal. Happy Days was a sitcom set in the 1950s, and that appealed to people that had been teenagers […]
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Perhaps “spider-curse” is too strong a wording for some who may have enjoyed Sony’s recent big screen Spider-Man efforts. For me, they haven’t made a decent one since Spider-Man 2, so it’s taken a little less than fifteen years, an […]
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This show, man. This is the Christmas miracle I didn’t know I needed. I think I heard rumblings about it last year, but it was on SyFy and we ditched our cable TV some years back, deciding to subsist on […]
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You know, sometimes I’ll explain the premise of Zombie Ranch to people and their response (for good or ill) will be, “Wow, that’s pretty bizarre.” I can’t really argue that. Bizarre is part of the point. If we were doing […]
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Pardners, y’all may or may not be aware of this, but I’m one of those heathen souls that didn’t care for True Grit. The Coen Brothers remake, that is. Loved the book, love the original film, and normally I cozy […]
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