Mental Purgatory

So I haven’t written over break (it seems it’s been a literary break for better or worse), but I did brew up a new idea while in the shower the other day (I won’t include pics of that for your sake). I probably won’t ever write it but it might surface during a dead spot [...]

I saw the movie Green Mile the other day (that is to say, a month ago as this was written a while back) and couldn’t get over how one dimensional one of the guards was. His purpose in the movie was to be mean and to do as many cruel and degrading things to instill [...]

So Merry Christmas everyone! It’s 10:30 on Christmas Eve night but I thought I’d try and write something out before going to bed (AKA working for another hour or two and then giving in to the demands of sleep). So today I thought I’d talk about the flashforward.
This concept is basically a flashback, and really, [...]

With Christmas coming quickly (and Channukah starting today, so Happy Channukah!), the notion of gifts and thank you and all that jazz recently came up and was something I thought I’d bring up here.
On the concept of gifts, I always feel guilty when someone gets me a gift and I don’t get them a gift [...]

So I decided that in addition to rant posts on Sundays, I’m going to use Wednesdays to post about my writing and writing in general. I would do it in another blog (called Writer’s Blog hah, get it?), but I don’t see why I can’t double up on this one.

This week’s writing experience would just [...]

William Carlos Williams devised his variable foot poetry form in a selfish manner. Basically, he decided to ignore standard meter and used what sounded right to his ear. This works fine in your head, until someone else reads it with a different style and it loses all of its flow and delivery.
Why do I bring [...]

This is my attempt at starting a blog. Does it have a topic? No. I mostly just wanted a place to consolidate random thoughts I have about random things and this seemed like a good way to solidify them. Plus, I had started reading a friend’s blog and found it interesting so I figured I [...]