Copyright Gargoyle
When is it OK to rip off copyrighted material? It all depends on the ambiguity of fair use. Difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. Here are some examples of fair use, as far …
Category: Literary Crypto-Criticism
Death by Dr. Zaius, one of many missed opportunities in this anthology of short stories, Machine of Death. All of the stories are about a machine (of death) that tells you how you are going to die. It takes a …
Look into the Abyss
I had a dream that SOPA would pass and the freedom to regulate would prevail.
I had a dream that my two grown children, living in my basement and the spare bedroom, would one day surf …
Kate Winslet Naked
I only watch movies when Kate Winslet is naked. The first movie I saw was Titanic, then I saw Holy Smoke and Quills. I didn’t watch many movies for the next five years. I did watch Eternal …
Based on solid scientific evidence that I mostly made up, I know what animals Star Trek characters would be reincarnated as.
Vulcan-pit bull hybrid
It is a proven fact that dogs are more logical than chimps, because they can take …
A dark convention hall. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
Enter the three Politicians.
1 Politician. Thrice the political cat fight mew’d.
2 Politician. Thrice and once, the pork barrel whin’d.
3 Politician. ’tis time! ’tis time!
1 …
Guldukat’s Taxes Will Increase under the Deep Space 9-9-9 Plan
Our current economic crisis calls for bold action to launch the economy and America into a rapidly accelerating and expanding universe of growth and greatness. The Deep Space 9-9-9 Plan…
A change of pace from catastrophic fiction to catastrophic Halloween costumes.
Yog-Sothoth Costume and other Costumes Heralding My Doom
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I’ve often undertaken an ambitious fiction project with multiple themes and layers of meaning, the next Moby Dick, that …
So you’re waist-deep in a creative writing degree, when your half-baked plan to be a literary wonder stalls. Perhaps, you should have been a technical writer. People keep saying that technical writers are always in demand. Technical writing would certainly …
On
10.26.11 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
Moments that grip, surprise, twist, amuse, frighten, and seduce have no business in fiction. The unpublishable writer must consider half-baked, haphazard moments. The story won’t elevate to the level of unreadable unless it’s stuffed full of these moments.
- The moment
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