Writing stories in the age of reddit
Nobody ever did anything great by chasing the herd
Topic
PulpRev
A modern-day revival of the pulp magazines which thrived with fast-paced, action-packing page-turner stories back in the 1930s and 40s. Bringing back the spirit of Burroughs, Howard, Smith, and Lovecraft.
Pulp heroics for broken modernity
When your heroes believe in nothing, your culture is on its last legs.
The man who destroyed the heroes (and why he's repenting)
Why Alan Moore believes The Killing Joke turned heroes into angsty anti-heroes
Marauding marketers make a mess of a serious pulp fiction artist by selling lots of books
The old myth of the struggling romantic artist who can't compete with the carnival-barkers just won't die... we won't let it
A rogue planet brand check
In which I riff on the Bigger Vision animating the lifeless universe around here