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Nightmares Film Festival X, 2025, Columbus OH.
October 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Nightmares Film Festival X, 2025, Columbus OH.
Gearing up to return to the mainland from Catalina Film Festival. Hope the ferry can evade the cruise ship blockade.
September 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gearing up to return to the mainland from Catalina Film Festival. Hope the ferry can evade the cruise ship blockade.
Script contest reading time again. Tip of the day: character intros offer a chance to slip a *little* something extra in for actors. That's not the same thing as inserting the character's C.V. or their therapist's notes that week.
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Script contest reading time again. Tip of the day: character intros offer a chance to slip a *little* something extra in for actors. That's not the same thing as inserting the character's C.V. or their therapist's notes that week.
Serializing Sleep of the Unjust, my 7th (and last, and weirdest) novel, week-by-week on Patreon. The other 6 are still there too, for now. I will be changing from monthly sub to selling by the collection when I finish this one. www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-...
Sleep of the Unjust: Chapter Twelve part 1 | Jeffrey Howe
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February 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Serializing Sleep of the Unjust, my 7th (and last, and weirdest) novel, week-by-week on Patreon. The other 6 are still there too, for now. I will be changing from monthly sub to selling by the collection when I finish this one. www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-...
DANGER--pointless story theory enclosed
Posited: in order for sympathetic antagonists to work, unsympathetic (or at least LESS sympathetic) antagonists must exist to compare them to, not just flawed protagonists.
Not necessarily in the same story, although that certainly works.
Posited: in order for sympathetic antagonists to work, unsympathetic (or at least LESS sympathetic) antagonists must exist to compare them to, not just flawed protagonists.
Not necessarily in the same story, although that certainly works.
January 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
DANGER--pointless story theory enclosed
Posited: in order for sympathetic antagonists to work, unsympathetic (or at least LESS sympathetic) antagonists must exist to compare them to, not just flawed protagonists.
Not necessarily in the same story, although that certainly works.
Posited: in order for sympathetic antagonists to work, unsympathetic (or at least LESS sympathetic) antagonists must exist to compare them to, not just flawed protagonists.
Not necessarily in the same story, although that certainly works.
I'm on the verge of setting up a chess timer I can just slap when I feel stuck in a plot crux. If nothing comes to me in 20 minutes, I gotta move on.
Stuck in a scene? Do what the pros do: use brackets. Write what the story beat is:
[Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means]
Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.
[Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means]
Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.
December 5, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I'm on the verge of setting up a chess timer I can just slap when I feel stuck in a plot crux. If nothing comes to me in 20 minutes, I gotta move on.
Tempted to work this into the next job interview.
Interviewer: what's your greatest strength?
Me: i have exceptional hindsight
Interviewer: that doesn't really help us
Me: yes, i see that now
Me: i have exceptional hindsight
Interviewer: that doesn't really help us
Me: yes, i see that now
November 25, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Tempted to work this into the next job interview.
Job interview responses I'm perilously close to using:
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"In the same chair I'm in right now, doing what I always do. If you're lucky I'll be doing it for you."
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"In the same chair I'm in right now, doing what I always do. If you're lucky I'll be doing it for you."
November 15, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Job interview responses I'm perilously close to using:
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"In the same chair I'm in right now, doing what I always do. If you're lucky I'll be doing it for you."
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"In the same chair I'm in right now, doing what I always do. If you're lucky I'll be doing it for you."
Something I just wrote over at the metazone that's actually pretty good for this hour of the morning: Internal conflict happens in the space between what a character wants and what a character needs. You can write a perfectly functional story without it, but never a great one.
November 15, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Something I just wrote over at the metazone that's actually pretty good for this hour of the morning: Internal conflict happens in the space between what a character wants and what a character needs. You can write a perfectly functional story without it, but never a great one.
I was at most a frequent guest, never a regular, over at the place with almost no character(s) in its name or anything else. I figure I can do that here, right? Hope to see more writers here soon-ish.
November 15, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I was at most a frequent guest, never a regular, over at the place with almost no character(s) in its name or anything else. I figure I can do that here, right? Hope to see more writers here soon-ish.