When I watch movies, I tend to watch independents. Sometimes I'll watch the Hollywood independents, if it looks like they're only going to modestly apply structuralism. I like to think I'm savvy. I don't want to feel like I'm a monkey watching for bananas, which Hollywood has turned into a science. If you don't know how [...]
Tag: Prose
Proximity’s Unfortunate Consequence for Peripherals to the Writer’s Gaze
There you are enjoying the advantages of not being accountable and then a writer moves in next door. At first you think, "Oh, this will be interesting...to have an artist type in the community," and then you realize writers write. More importantly, writers stand up for the weak, abused, and disadvantaged. Suddenly, you start to [...]
Drama Triangle: Enhancing Victimhood with Vengeance and Sacrifice
I don't denounce structuralism. Every time I watch a Disney or Pixar movie with my daughters and tears start welling up in my eyes by simple structural tactics, like music and camera angles, I'm reminded there is a reason it works. But I'm a literary writer and we are defiant bastards and we like to [...]
Catch an In’din by His Toe: How Scapegoating Practices Disrupt Native Discourse
There's a lot of insecurities in our very small Native world. Native identity is a funky thing. And people are people and people love power (even the ones who say they don't). We hold things over each other. Sometimes these are purposeful attacks and sometimes we're just reaching into the dark for anything we can weaponize. Unfortunately, identity [...]
Price Vs. Cost: What We Pay to be Published, What We Lose to be Successful
The publication game is a beast with a big appetite. You've been there. You submit to this journal and then to that journal or a whole list of journals. Maybe you're like me and you create tiers of journals and cycle your short stories through rejection after rejection. What's the price we're paying? No, I [...]
Mojo in the Groove: The Ebb and Flow of Creative Writing
The most dangerous thing you're going to do is drive. Because of the frequency in which we drive and the comfort we get from believing we've mastered techniques to maintain proper focus, we get into that "conscious incompetence" space where we increase our likelihood of being in an accident. Similarly, I seem to find myself doing [...]
Debut Post: Author Site & Blog
So this is the millionth blog/site I've created in this current lifetime. I tend to start these things with a lot of energy and write many entertaining posts which receive a lot of reaction. That's great. I enjoy interacting with people through blogging and I've learned a lot over the years. Then something happens. I'm not [...]
