Justin Sirois's Blog, page 37

So Say the Waiters

This new project has become a good lesson in balancing tension. It's challenging and fun to switch from plot-driven, severe tension to more subtle relationship-based tension and this series has a lot of flips. The turn that the series take in the fifth book really sets up the long-term plot driver which will carry the tension for the entire arc. I can't wait to reach that point. Until then, friends... so we Wait.   

Rumor: Sony Considered Publishing Controversial ‘Six Days in Fallujah’

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2012/08/16/rumor-sony-considered-publishing-controversial-six-days-in-fallujah/

in July, 38 active-duty and reserve soldiers took their own lives

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79812.html

Iraq photo of the day

So Say the Waiters

Concept collage. 157 pages in.

Iraq photo of the day

Mitt Romney will cut PBS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/mitt-romney-tax-cuts_n_1778429.html

Nobel Peace Prize winners protest NBC's 'Stars Earn Stripes'

"However, the nine undersigned say, "It is our belief that this program pays homage to no one anywhere and continues and expands on an inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence. Military training is not to be compared, subtly or otherwise, with athletic competition by showing commercials throughout the Olympics. Preparing for war is neither amusing nor entertaining."

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/nobel-peace-prize-winners-protest-nbcs-stars-earn-stripes/?hpt=hp_c2

worst opening sentence to a novel in 2012, Cathy Bryant of Manchester, UK

"As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/bulwer-lytton-2012-cathy-bryant_n_1773672.html

Iraq photo of the day