I want to run this pitch past you. It’s for a new story I’m working on. I think it’s good, but I’m afraid it strains believability a bit. Continue reading Let me know if you think this is too crazy
SEMI-DRUNKEN ADVICE TO MY UNBORN DAUGHTER, VOLUME ONE?
Okay, internet. Get ready for some truth.
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Stuff I Learned About Writing from Directing Theater or Something Like That PART FIVE: Think like a director, because writers have no idea what they’re doing.
No idea, I tell you!!!
Hey there, Internet. I know, I know. I’m the worst. Continue reading Stuff I Learned About Writing from Directing Theater or Something Like That PART FIVE: Think like a director, because writers have no idea what they’re doing.
Interlude: Prisoner of the Thousand Tiny Sopranos
Where have I even been???
There are really two answers to this question.
1. Held prisoner by a thousand tiny sopranos.
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Five Ways Directing Theater Taught Me How to Write, Part Four: Don’t Try So Hard
Okay, people, imagine you’re directing a play. Now, quick: what’s the fastest way to make an actor hate you?
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Five Ways Directing Theater Taught Me How to Write, Part Three: Casting!
In fifth grade, I wrote a story about a boy who travels into a post-apocalyptic future to do battle with ancient Zoroastrian gods.
Wait, I’m sorry, now Hollywood’s on the line. “What? Oh, dear, no, I’m holding out for forty million. Thanks, but no thanks!” Continue reading Five Ways Directing Theater Taught Me How to Write, Part Three: Casting!
Five Ways Directing Theater Taught me How to Write, Part Two: Charactery Stuff
Five Ways Directing Theater Taught me How to Write, or My Student Loans: A Rationalization: Part One
Hey there, fellow writers! It’s me, Chris O’Neill, a writer just like you! Yup, just another book-loving writer of books, fresh out of book-writing college, where I majored in book-writing, and took courses like “Books: How to Write Them (Introductory)” and “Books: How to Write them (Advanced).” Why, I wrote so many books, my nickname around campus was Writey McAuthorface. They called me Galactus, Devourer of Words. Because I just…I mean, I was like a machine…I won all the awards…
FINE, I ADMIT IT, I’M A FRAUD, STOP LOOKING AT ME, NO ONE LOOK AT ME! Continue reading Five Ways Directing Theater Taught me How to Write, or My Student Loans: A Rationalization: Part One
PARANORMAL PICNIC INVESTIGATION: THE TOYNBEE TILES OF TRIBECA
Just around the corner from your safe, warm home, there exists a secret, hidden world of hidden, secretive secrets, a place of mystery where the unidentified flying objects are all knives that want to stab you in the face even though no one is holding them…except Bigfoot. It’s a place filled to the brim with black ops snipers who are planning to take you out right now because you know too much DON’T LOOK DON’T TURN AROUND JUST RUN Continue reading PARANORMAL PICNIC INVESTIGATION: THE TOYNBEE TILES OF TRIBECA
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A real post is coming soon! This week, I’m reporting on our Paranormal Picnic investigation of the Toynbee Tiles! Check back soon!
And now, since you came all the way here just for a plug, please enjoy this list of hilarious Autocorrect fails!
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