Justin Sirois's Blog, page 39
August 8, 2012
feverishly, So Say the Waiters
I've written over 100 pages in eight days. Granted, these book have a lot of dialogue, but that's a record for me. If these books weren't so cerebral, they'd be straight up screen plays, but I do want to keep them as literature-like as possible. There's no way to call them literary. They're just too mainstream.
So yeah, the character development is kind of taking itself over. One of the main characters surprised me when I rewrote a scene to make her so much more compli...
So yeah, the character development is kind of taking itself over. One of the main characters surprised me when I rewrote a scene to make her so much more compli...
Still raw wounds greet US medics in Iraq's Fallujah (depleted or slightly enriched uranium possibly causing cancer and birth defects)
FALLUJAH: In an Iraqi city where U.S. military offensives levelled entire neighbourhoods in 2004, a hospital has turned to American doctors to treat children with heart problems that residents blame on fallout from the fighting.
The decision was not easy for Fallujah, which lies just west of Baghdad and still views the United States with bitterness and extreme distrust.
Residents point the finger at U.S. weaponry for causing a rise in birth defects, mainly congenital heart problems, still occu...
