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  • November 1st, 2013 2:31pm

    I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.

    — Sylvia Plath written in 1949 at age 17. (via theboywiththesagantattoo)

  • August 13th, 2013 2:20pm

    Dropping The Daily Load

    joehillsthrills:

    vikingspy asks: Haven’t seen this question addressed yet, so: How do you know when you are done writing for the day? Is it word/page counts? Fatigue? Blurred vision?

    I aim to get 1,500 words. After I have that I keep going until it isn’t fun anymore. Today I wrote 2,500 words and finished the script for WRAITH #5. Two left to go. (Yeah, I know. It was only supposed to be a five issue miniseries. But then I got ideas.)

    When I’m revising, I usually shoot to read over and rewrite about 8 pages. I’m slow.

  • August 11th, 2013 9:19pm

    When people talk about how science fiction writers predict the present it’s because they’ve gone through a large corpus of work and picked out certain things. We can’t just predict, there isn’t enough story material in straight predictions. We make up futures, it doesn’t matter whether we really think they’ll come to pass or not.

    — Isaac Asimov.

  • August 3rd, 2013 5:07pm

    Premier Khrushchev once attempted to cashier a large number of senior officers in the Red Army, putting them in charge of hydroelectric power stations and the like. This was not to their liking, and in something like a year most of them were back in their old jobs. In fact, the military establishments of the United States and the Soviet Union owe their jobs to each other, and there is a very real sense in which they form a natural alliance against the rest of us.

    — Carl Sagan – The Cosmic Connection.

  • July 22nd, 2013 4:29pm

    Lois is the second biggest character in the story, or maybe third behind the antagonist. Lois doesn’t just have a role, she has a crucial role in being an investigative reporter. Just as a tease, at the end of Unchained #2, for example, you see Lois is going down in a plane. The common wisdom and expectation is that Superman is going to come save her. But I want to do a Lois story where she is bad-ass and saves everybody else.

    I promise when you open up #3, you’ll see there’s a lot of fun Lois stuff that starts there, where she is smarter than everybody around her. All I can say is, I really have no bones about saying to you: this is a huge Lois Lane story. I wouldn’t say that to you if it wasn’t. She has a crucial role in it that is much more than any tiny supporting role. She doesn’t need to be saved. She is the key to unraveling the mystery of Wraith, of Ascension, of everything.

    He couldn’t do it without her. I promise you, a lot of Lois and important Lois, and I love writing her.

    — Scott Snyder (via fyeahsupermanandloislane)