Absolutely the best writing advice available today.
David Mamet to the writers of The Unit: Our friends, the penguins, think that we, therefore, are employed to communicate information — and, so, at times, it seems to us. But note: the audience will not tune in to watch information. You wouldn’t, I wouldn’t. No one would or will. The audience will only tune [...]
Fixed that bug…
The older stories run on a version of Narrator written in ruby. Yowlers runs on Django, which has slightly different requirements, so the link was borked for a while. I’ve fixed it.
The new trailer for Tron Legacy is out.
I would be totally remiss in my duties if I didn’t remind you that I had some Tron fanfic of my own, now wouldn’t I? Data Flow is M/M, and a warning for non-consensual sex. Meanwhile, enjoy staring at the totally hot chick. If that’s Mercury, damn, that’s a lot of nice polygons.
On where to put your black swans.
Joseph Fouche has a fascinating article entitled Seizing the Opportunity to Destroy Western Civilization. I don’t know anything about Fouche, although the blogroll he belongs to suggests a right-libertarian bent with touches of joyful submission to authoritarianism (Althouse? Really?), but this article of his has all the makings of a classic for writers of epic [...]
New Story, “Fortune Cookie.”
This is a fairly standard Furry fantasy, with some antagonistic-to-furry language at the beginning. If you think you recognize yourself in the story, you’re probably wrong. It was a lot of fun to write, and I’d like to thank an unnamed lovely young woman for giving me so many amazing ideas. M/F, bondage. Please enjoy [...]