Sometimes, you have to stop yourself and realize that something’s not quite right. You’ve got some great elements put together but the end result isn’t quite as good as it could have been. There’s nothing wrong with using chocolate and butter together, and butter compliments corn, but somehow you ended up with a chocolate and… Continue reading Preserve the Key Ingredient
Author: BlueInkAlchemist
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Batman
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/batman.mp3] The right-hand column of my blog (you fine Escapist folks know where it is if you’re a follower of mine so I won’t reiterate its URL) haunts me. I put a few things on my Netflix queue that, for one reason or another, I think would be interesting to review. The recent remake of… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Batman
One's Own Hype
I’m glad that the writing competition I mentioned yesterday has a deadline in August instead of its original, which would have been tomorrow. I think I have more work to do than I thought. Creative people in general, and writers in particular, need to take care when it comes to their own hype. It’s one… Continue reading One's Own Hype
I Must Construct Additional Pylons!
I have an entry created for Blizzard’s writing contest, and while I think it’s okay, I want to be doubly sure it’s highly polished and as Blizzardy as possible. But it’s not about what I think, is it? It’s going to be read by other people. So I need other people willing to read it.… Continue reading I Must Construct Additional Pylons!
The Epic Is In The Details
It’s amazing how moving something small can make a huge difference. We’ve been in the process of rearranging our apartment. The latest change saw a large stack of things by the lower corner of the bed, meaning I’d have to crawl out of it in a somewhat awkward manner. Over the weekend (Sunday night in… Continue reading The Epic Is In The Details
Guest Post: Fictional Plausibility And Death
Today’s guest post comes to us courtesy of Monica Flink. She’s a long-standing and very dear friend who is also struggling to get away from the day job environment through the power of the written word. She’s been published on AOL.com, Lifescript.com and eHow. She has guest lectured at colleges and is a regular contributor… Continue reading Guest Post: Fictional Plausibility And Death
Movie Review: Salt
Thanks to my friends at Geekadelphia, my wife and I were able to enjoy an advance screening of Salt. We walked out of it wondering the same thing: why is a movie dealing with a villain put to bed twenty years ago coming out now? Remember how Yahtzee equated the United States to a prize… Continue reading Movie Review: Salt
Movie Review: Inception
I’ve been a fan of writer/director Christopher Nolan’s work since his shatteringly brilliant Memento. He’s breathed new life into Batman with two equally stunning films, and his somewhat underrated adaptation of the novel The Prestige is every bit as haunting and cerebral as his other work. This year, he brings us Inception. Not only is… Continue reading Movie Review: Inception
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Sherlock Holmes
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/holmes.mp3] Necessity is the mother of invention. Along with being something Sherlock Holmes himself might utter while investigating a case, this idiom is also the reason I’m reviewing Guy Ritchie’s recent feature-film treatment of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective. I was originally planning to subject myself to the apparent mediocrity of The Taking of Pelham… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Sherlock Holmes
Becoming The Hero
Every hero is a protagonist. But not every protagonist is a hero. Some characters start out as heroes, while others are just the focal point of the story. Pure heroism is a rarity in our world, so when we see a Superman or a Captain America or an Obi-Wan Kenobi, we’re a bit in awe… Continue reading Becoming The Hero
