Writing

A Chat with Ernest Cline

9 August 2011

Yesterday, I talked about Ernest Cline’s new novel, Ready Player One. I also had the opportunity to talk to the author about the book. I really appreciate his insights, though we will forever disagree about Krull (which I have not actually seen since I was six years old). —– Jeff Stolarcyk: Hi Ernest. Thanks for [...]

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It’s One of the Many Things I Forgot to Ask Him

14 June 2011

I once had a very engaging and amiable debate with Natasha. I wish, I told her, that I could be a real journalist, like you are. She scoffed and said she wished that she could be a blogger, like I am.  The conversation ran the gamut from the importance of legitimacy to the actual relevance [...]

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Iterations

1 February 2011

The first installment of Must Love Dice is up on Alert Nerd right now. (I apologize, by the way, for the pink overload you’re probably seeing right now, between the new look of the blog and the abundance of pink on the cover image) You might be thinking, “Jeff, haven’t I read this before?” Well, [...]

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I’m Alive

11 November 2010

Hey, blog. It’s been awhile, huh?  How’ve you been? I’m good, I’m good.  I’ve been spending a decent amount of time trying to muddle through NaNoWriMo this month (which I might share some excerpts from), as well as working on this: “Peasant Problem” is a short story that I’m releasing serially over at Alert Nerd. [...]

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Elsewhere

19 October 2010

I talk about the Solomon Kane movie over at Bloody Good Horror. And of course, I review comics with some of my friends at Floppytown.  Today, for instance, I say, “Darkseid’s revenge for Batman shooting him with a god-killing time bullet is to turn Batman into a time bullet that will destroy the universe and [...]

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Note To Self, 10/18/2010

18 October 2010

At Comic Con, I got to talk a bit with Peter V. Brett, whose novel The Warded Man I enjoyed a great deal because it is a well-paced mashup of fantasy and horror that is actually effective at the horror half that exhibits some excellent world-building on the level of Scott Lynch or Greg Keyes.  [...]

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That Explains All The Dinosaurs And Explosions, Then

29 September 2010

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. – Willa Cather

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The Most Important Announcement from San Diego Comic Con 2010

27 July 2010
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The Mathematics of Fiction

16 December 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We’ll look back one day and realize it ruined everything. When I first heard about PPZ, I wanted to lobby the state legislature to change laws so that I could marry the thing. I love Jane Austen, and I love zombies.  What, I ask you, could be better? How, I [...]

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Per Annum

6 August 2009

Tomorrow, I won’t be thirty anymore. I’ll be thirty-one.  I’ll be in my thirties.  And as any impending birthday is wont to do, it has made me introspective. I dreaded thirty as it approached, but thirty became a good year.  It was thirty – it was important because it had a zero at the end, [...]

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