This is the final part of this series. In the past two articles I spoke about my long history in e-wrestling, and the link to my writing This is part three. MBC Mighty Bastard Championship started about a year before AEWA ended. The ‘owner’ was one of the top bad guys there, and when I […]
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E-Feds and Writing (and War Stories)
Part 2 SWF (Continued) I created a character that I would end up using for years: the Oakland Oddball. He was an erratic bad guy. looked like a bald surfer (but despised surfers). For a brief time, I even had a Website for him. I created three other characters around him, two his brothers (and […]
My History With E-Feds And How They Helped my Writing
First, Though: What’s an E-Fed? An Electronic Federation. A wrestling federation that exists online and in the imagination of its players. Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Slow blogging, and some virus anxiety. Time to get back in the saddle. Working on these helped me to develop characters and develop characters, in both good […]
Comicbooks: Modern Mythology?
Not All The latest version of Opera doesn’t keep any cookies, including passwords. Getting back here took much time. Now I’m very late! Opera’s loss… Some are amateur in both art and writing, but the others can fit the idea. The Legion of Superheroes I’ve been a fan of this for more than three decades, […]
Writing For Comicbooks
I’ve been a full-time comicbook reader since I was 13. I read my first book when I was 7 when a dog-eared copy of an issue of The Brave And The Bold came into my possession. I’ve had many RPG publications of the superhero variety. I founded an APA about comicbooks in 1990 and a […]
Wrestling: an Alternate Fighting Style
May Not Be What You Think Before you brand me a fool. hear me out! I’m not saying this is real. I’ve been watching it for nearly 40 years and always knew it was orchestrated. It’s like stuntmen in movies, except matches sometimes go for longer. No matter, wrestlers can show you a lot about […]
Updating This Site
For the last two days, I’ve been updating things on this blog. Don’t be surprised if there are some glitches in it because of this. I’ll fix them soon: Email List I’ve been using MailChimp for a long time, and I won’t rag on it. They made many small changes in their service lately, making […]
Write Like a Pulp Writer
Not Purple Prose, But… I’ve read several books about this: These aren’t affiliate links. How to Write Pulp Fiction Pulp Era Writing Tips You shouldn’t try to write the style of pulp. It’s purple prose, bad writing for readers today. However, as these books say, parts of their methods we could learn from: Speed Pulp […]
Making Snow-Mageddon Useful
I was shut-in today (Feb. 13, 2019) due to the record snowfall outside (for my American readers it was more than 1 foot of it. It’s 2 days later when I finish this post, Feb. 15. Belated Happy Valen Day. Rather than do nothing on my time off, I was as productive: Continued Ninja Writing I spoke of that in my last post. I worked on the next draft […]
Why Ninja Writing Will Change Your Life
Your writing life anyway. It changed mine. Before Ninja Writing I began a novel in 2013. I finished the first draft in early 2014, and didn’t touch it again until November 2018. As I’ve mentioned many times, I’ve been in the Montreal chapter of NaNoWriMo since 2012 and won it four years in a row. […]