by Michael Lesiuk | Mar 5, 2011 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
(Note that at the time of writing this post, only four books have been released in what is expected to be a seven-book series. Also note that there are some spoilers towards the end of this post, which I’ve indicated with a rather prominent warning.) One of the...
by Michael Lesiuk | Oct 14, 2010 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
I am not a fan of the vampire craze in today’s media, because I think that vampires are being horribly misused. Being bitten by a vampire should be a very bad thing, not simply the means by which one gets a fun superpower. If you want to write about vampires,...
by Michael Lesiuk | May 2, 2010 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in the lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do no work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry...
by Michael Lesiuk | Jan 19, 2010 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will...
by Michael Lesiuk | Dec 5, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies, Workflow
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his...
by Michael Lesiuk | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
So I got to wondering what would happen if ebook publishers somehow had a bunch of money to make ebooks really awesome (instead of kind of lame, poorly formatted, and with limiting DRMs). What would some of the advantages of ebooks be in an ideal world? Email your...
