This week, I started a new column at 411 Mania. 411 is your one-stop shop for all the pop culture you could ever need (except the pop culture you need from MINE).
For my first trick, I shall attempt to go year by year, starting in 1975, and talk about the movies that I think are the best, performing two full rotations in mid air, over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly, through a hogshead of real fire, landing in this half-filled glass of water.
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Crack dealer Podcast author J.C. Hutchins has unleashed a scavenger hunt on us in anticipation of his latest project, 7th Son: Obsidian. Fourteen beautiful propaganda posters are scattered across the Internet, and your life will never be everything it could be unless you collect each and every one of them. Not only that, but if you call the number for the National Blackout Hotline found at the bottom of each poster, you have a chance to become part of the story.
All this builds to the May 31 release of 7th Son: Obsidian, stories set during the nationwide blackout that comes near the end of Hutchins’ 7th Son trilogy. That gives you just enough time to listen to all three novels before Obsidian launches with stories by Michael Stackpole, Mur Lafferty, Tee Morris, Scott Sigler, Christiana Ellis, and many, many, many (well, nine) more.
J.C. Hutchins kept all of us on the edge of our collective iPods with his 7th Son trilogy. Now he’s invited more authors to play in his blast crater of a sandbox. Find out more about 7th Son: Obsidianhere.
OK, so it’s not as catchy as NaNoWriMo. It doesn’t start on a nice, convenient day like November 1st. There are no forums to read for solidarity. However, considering the declining state of my writing habits, the inclining state of my intellectual struggle, and the reclining state of my ass, today begins Local Get Off My Ass Month.
Tessie the Dog and I are going to start taking walks in the morning. Erin the Girl, Vincent the Computer, and the unnamed bookshelves (they know what they did!) and I are going to start having story times of varying styles, lengths, and intensity. Snacks will become healthier. Floors will become cleaner. Clothes will become folded and hung up. God will be in His andsoforth.
Things are going to, all fortissimo, change around here. Take it from me, kiddo.
November is approaching far too quickly, and with it comes NaNoWriMo. I gave this the old college try last year and fell on my face, only getting 6,000 of my 50,000 words on the page.
This year, my strategy has changed.
I’m taking November 1 and 2 off work and locking myself in with the words for my entire user-created four-day weekend. Only one of us is coming out. Either I’ll be well on my way to finally getting this novel out, or I’ll be eaten by the cat.
If you’re interested in following my progress, or if you’re insane enough to do this too and want to add me as a buddy, go here.
Dave on September 26th, 2008
This week, I started a new column at 411 Mania. 411 is your one-stop shop for all the pop culture you could ever need (except the pop culture you need from MINE).
