I came to the world of comic books fairly late in my adolescence. It was actually a love of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer that first drove me to enter what was, at the age of sixteen, the forbidding comic shop in my town. Several years, over five ComicCons (the local Emerald City ComicConContinue reading “Inspiration – Sweating the Small Stuff”
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Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 2 of 2)
It seems that the emergently popular world of electronic literature has provided readers with a possible solution to this issue of control. Interactive fiction provides the reader with something they never really had with print: agency. Take, for example, a work like Emily Short’s Galatea. This work is written entirely in second person, a formContinue reading “Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 2 of 2)”
Subtext
Charles heard Holly coming long before she arrived; the frenzied clicking of her heels across their marble floors gave him welcome warning. He sighed and slid further down into his plush leather chair. “We should buy a house.” Charles’ eyebrows lifted high over his glasses, but his eyes remained fixed on the book in hisContinue reading “Subtext”
Inspiration – Major Minor Characters
First of all, if you have yet to read or watch any version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what are you doing with your life? Reading my blog? Stop, now, go to the library and pick up a copy. Better yourself, we could all use a little improvement, and come back after you’ve read it. ForContinue reading “Inspiration – Major Minor Characters”
Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 1 of 2)
David Sedaris, the author of such acclaimed collections as Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, was quoted during an interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal as saying, “Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their ownContinue reading “Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 1 of 2)”