Rusty Carl's Blog, page 27

Check it out... I'm Batman:I actually laughed at this. Ho...

Check it out... I'm Batman:



I actually laughed at this. Honestly laughed. That doesn't happen too often.

Look! Stuff!

I like history. Probably because it's like time travel, except without the actual travel part. So it's like time, except past time. You know, history.

Damn. I'm sure everyone sees why I dream of being a writer. That's some good stuff right there.

Anyway, I like history, it's full of stuff that's usually way weirder than fiction. I know it's a cliche, but it's true, real stuff is way more bizarre. I think the reason fiction works so well is that it allows us a sense of justice, or closure, or wh...

My Nano Disaster

A metaphor for my novelThat's a strong word - disaster. I'll just call it a bit of an oversight. You see, a large portion of what I thought was the plot for my current story is actually not a plot. Yeah, I know, a rookie mistake. I thought I had a this great meta-story and then this really good personal story to tell. You know, love and betrayal, all that.

Well, that meta-story is really more like a backdrop. You know, like WWII isn't a plot for most novels, it's something that's going in the ...

Saturday Quickie

Folks, just imagine what could have been...

 

Me, The 90's, and Potential

I have a funny story to tell, funny because while it's true, and not funny, it's illustrative of how other people perceive me. Or did at one time. 
Pretty much at the apex of my lifeAt a time of my life when I was still pretty young, early 20's I guess, I was a bit of a wonderer. I was drifting along through life (I still am, if I'm being honest with myself here) without any real direction. At the time I worked in a gas station. The gas station was filled with people who had lots of other...

Add A Caption!

I know, it's stupid. I'm a sucker for this type of stuff though. So please someone add a caption for the picture below (which I whipped up a few months ago for another blog post.).
I have wasted entire days, days, looking at those damn 'add a caption' contests. I don't know why, but for some reason I just have this need, it comes from deep within, and I need to add captions to all pictures. 
It's a curse.

It Started Poorly Then Got Worse...

After yesterday's rant, I had the brief inkling to continue to air my grievances today, but thought better of it at the last moment. I've got a list of things that infuriate me about the world that's a mile long. I could post every day about it, but it makes me miserable. So instead, I figure I'd throw something out there about the state of my writing.

After the full manuscript of my novel was summarily rejected by one big time publisher, I queried a big six publisher and cringe at the crappy ...

It Started So Innocently But Then...

Genius!
What a rant! I don't know where this came from. Sorry team, we'll try to do better tomorrow.
I think I've talked about Neal Stephenson before, actually, I know I have, I just can't remember when (or which posts), and I don't really want to talk about him again today except for what it means for my larger topic. He did, however, write of the most brilliantly odd books I've ever read in Cryptonomicon, which is a genre defying novel about a code breaker in WWII and his grandson in the...

Well, Crap.

I had a brilliant post all planned out in my head for today, but it was going to take a bit of work and I forgot. As this nano thing is going in fits and starts and I've been getting behind during the week and trying to catch up on the weekends. Of course, this weekend didn't work out that way due to unavoidable surprises. But, like a sick patient, barely hanging in there on life support, my story had a blip of life as I was mired in the depths of my craptacular disaster of a novel. Yes, I ha...

They Should Have Sent a Poet

Because I don't have words for this:

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.