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Pick A Domain For My New Novel “Wayland” Contest

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

You may or may not know that for the last year I’ve been working on a novel entitled Wayland. It is the story of a man who travels across the ruined landscape of America with a young boy. Unlike Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is not the story of a hopeless post-apocalyptic future, but is [...]

The Worst Opening Sentence

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“There was a pause in time as Frank’s erratic turn of the wheel propelled him into the path of the bag-lady carting what could only be described as a black garbage bag of bent, crushed, or otherwise impacted aluminum cans, during which a vision flashed before Frank’s eyes of his mother, whom he had struck [...]

FWF Returns

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Fifty Word Fiction is back! Thanks to a comment recently left on one of the last stories I posted, I wanted to try my hand at writing these little stories again. In case you’re unfamiliar, the premise is simple: I post a story, new every Monday, composed of fifty words. Nothing more, nothing less. If [...]

Writing Erotic Literature

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The film, as it stands, is winging its way to the suits who have become the arbiters of good and bad independent and semi-independent cinema, for better or worse. Now our commitment to finishing the film before the middle of December has been made a bit more firm and round. The good news is I [...]

The Lines of Yesterday

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 12, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Days are getting easier to remember. I think it’s because I’m using my novel as the rubrick. Every day is measured in words written. Every day is defined by the section I’ve completed. Actually, when I finish this thing I’m probably going to lose all sense of time. The good news is I’m one or [...]

My Life As An Almost Am

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 5, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

I know I risk alienating a large portion of my readers by continuing to post updates on my life. Who wants to hear that kind of stuff, right? You want intrigue, sex, scandal, and violence, right? You want the sordid details of my adventures on Skid Row, or the story of my run-ins with celebrity [...]

2005 Winner NaNoWriMo

By ⋅ November 29, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

I’ve been waiting all month to post on this. This year I decided at the last minute to participate in NaNoWriMo, the worldwide challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I declined to participate last year, oddly enough, because I wasn’t busy enough. This year, I had so much on my plate [...]

Be Cool

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 24, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Get Shorty was hip. It had an edgy, off-the-cuff, yet leisurely feel about it, like it had nothing to prove but was proving it anyway, just to show you who was boss. Be Cool on the other hand, is anything but. With derivative and sub-par jokes, a cast that feels as strained as the story, [...]

RotK

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Someone saw a pre-release version of the Return of the King and now I am filled with envy of a cinematic nature. He’s got small picks and a few larger criticisms, but on the whole seems to think it the best effort of the trilogy of movies. The audience was made up of jaded film [...]

Life As a Beachhouse

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 23, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Junk For Code is reminded of the purity of a 1930′s architectural example as he looks at beachhouses along an unnamed seaside. The commentary on transitional living reminded me of the vacation home on the coast of Northern France that is one of the settings for my first novel (still in progress). There, four disillusioned [...]

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