Read My NaNoWriMo Story!
It’s now the last day of January, and as promised I’m finished with a rough edit of “Clone”, the story I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2012. If you’re interested in the reading the whole 51,000 words, have I got a deal for you…
The story is about a boy named Marduuk, who’s an only child with loving parents, a name drawn from Babylonian mythology, and a fairly privileged life. But he’s also a clone, and that affects how other people interact with him.
(obviously this is going to be an allegory for all sorts of discrimination)
"Twenty-Five Ways to Die"
A coworker of mine is a big fan of Train, the group behind “Drops of Jupiter” and “Hey, Soul Sister”. While their tunes are generally quite catchy (featuring the impressive tenor of Pat Monahan), we both freely admit that their lyrics are often less than stellar, sometimes bordering on nonsensical.
A few months later the song “Dumb Ways to Die” made its way around the internet, and I got an idea…
Movie Review: Vantage Point
To make up for The Hobbit, my family decided to watch another movie. We eventually settled on a movie my parents had seen a few years ago, Pete Travis’s Vantage Point. The tagline for the movie was “8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.”
Well, you know I’m a sucker for this kind of thing. Time manipulation? Multiple versions of the same story? Heck yes.