2025-08-09 - Have you ever encountered a work uncomfortably similar to one of your own?
Yes, the opening scenes of one of the Mission Impossible films was eerily similar to the opening scenes from a screenplay I wrote in 2014.
The Seth Rogen/Keanu Reeves movie, Good Fortune, is very similar to a treatment I wrote for a movie a few years ago.
For me, it's an indication that my ideas are good enough.
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New Post:
“The Traverse City Walmart Attack – An Opinion on America's Failing Mental Health System”
What happened in northern Michigan is tragic—but not isolated. In my latest blog post, I talk about how the system keeps failing people, and why we all should be concerned.
Let’s talk about it.
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Traverse City Walmart Stabbing: Could This Attack Have Been Prevented? Michigan is reeling from an attack at the Traverse City, Michigan Walmart on July 26, 2025 where a 42-year-old man “alle…
2025-07-21 - Does music help or hinder your creativity?
It's a massive help. Music allows me to drop into the correct metal space very quickly. I often craft soundtracks/playlists during the planning stages of a work that I listen to (over and over again) during the writing phase. Sometimes, that involves a song/track for each (usually, main) character that I can listen to if I ever need help getting a feel for the character.
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@LLMs I use Chatgpt for blogging, so yep - searching and structuring chats is a big want for me.
It kept forgetting my 'voice' and themes I want to weave in my posts, so I've asked it to search it's memory and our interactions and give me text to put infront of each chat to remind it. I've tweaked it and saved it as a Google Keep note to copy and paste in. Hoping that works
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Hey #FediverseWriters and #WritersOfMastodon -give this a try and reply or @ me your results! If the exact steps don't work for you try something similar that does. This is a just for fun challenge.
-Go to your music and pick a song at random. My favorite way is to put all my songs on shuffle and skip three times.
-Listen to the song, so it's fresh in your mind.
-Let it inspire something. A setting? A Character? A Plot? All three?
-Listen again with that in mind if necessary.
-Share!
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