H.L. Trombley's Blog, page 3
August 27, 2015
Public Service Announcement
The CW Seed website has made all of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles available for free. I would babble excitedly about it (it is my favorite show: yes, more than Firefly), but I’m strapped for time and no words of mine can do it justice. It’s machines from the future, it’s time travel and causality, […]
August 26, 2015
Into the Soup!
I haven’t touched Steel Butterfly: Part One since I sent it off to the Awesome Team Beta a couple of months ago (in fact I haven’t written a word of fiction since I typed The End), but that was the plan. I wanted to let it sit and not do too much conscious thinking about […]
August 24, 2015
August 18, 2015
Legends of Sleepy Hollow
Hello, lovely and faithful reader(s)! My handsome and talented husband, Mr Scott J Laurange, has a new short story out in the Legends of Sleepy Hollow anthology, available now on Amazon. Here’s the description: The Headless Horseman is not alone. The village of Sleepy Hollow has long been home to ghosts, ghouls, and supernatural tales which […]
August 12, 2015
Quick Thoughts on the Fantastic Four
No, I haven’t seen it. But I was reading a review, and it got me to thinking: the problem with all these “gritty” or “realistic” or what-have-you superhero movie adaptations is that they try to soft-shoe around the original material. “Look,” the filmmakers seem to be saying, “yeah, we know it’s based on a comic […]
July 28, 2015
Pacific Rim and Godzilla: Kaiju battle!
Charlie Hunnam says he feels Pacific Rim sacrified character development for spectacle: but when you decide to focus your big budget kaiju movie on “character development” instead, you get Godzilla, a muddled mess of a monster movie featuring barely any monsters and, despite lots of screen time devoted to humans, barely any characters either. […]
July 21, 2015
So Many Things
Hello, my faithful and beloved reader(s)! I have not meant to fall off the face of the earth, but … eh … life. The awesome Team Beta has awesomely been beta-ing Steel Butterfly, and giving me loads of good feedback and thinky-thoughts for round two. I have meant to mention some of them here, but […]
June 18, 2015
FINISHED*
*for certain values of “finished.” There’s work yet to be done, sanding down the edges, polishing the grain, that kind of thing. 155K is a lot of words! I bet I can cut at least fifteen thousand of them. But. But, but, but! The thing, the thing that I thought I would never get done, […]
June 17, 2015
The Writer’s Toolbox
Stephen King’s On Writing is fifteen years old this year (fifteen! the mind wobbles!), but still an engaging read on its own merits, especially for the overlapping middle section in the Venn diagram of Writers and Stephen King Fans. It came to mind last night because, you see, I have this friend. This friend is […]
June 13, 2015
White Screen of Death!
Naturally, when I sat me down this morning to chip away at the final few thousand words of the Neverending WIP, what should my dear little laptop give me but … a WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH. Never seen that before. Gave me quite a turn. She’s up and running again now, after a few restarts, […]
