Posts made in August, 2017

Ready Player One movie: will it suck?

This article starts with the title

‘Ready Player One’ is a terrible book and it will be a terrible movie

and goes from there.

The criticism is familiar for anyone who’s read reviews of the book: allegedly it focuses too much on nostalgia at the expense of story and character.…

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Second Lines

Mac Laidlaw now famously quipped that any story could be improved by changing the second line to “And then the murders began.”

I thought it would be fun to test that theory with some short stories from my FREE anthology, Minds and Machines:

Moving the empty containers was far more work than carrying the full ones would be.

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Micah Joel

Purveyor of things geeky