My action urban fantasy book is out now! In eBook format, anyway. I made a video on how to buy and review said action urban fantasy book. Like to hear it hear it go!
My action/ urban fantasy series wasn’t always a novel. It began life as a comic book! Get a quick hit as to how it developed and the things literally lost in translation.
Music sets the mood for all movies and TV shows. But can you also use music for your writing? In this episode, we’ll first look at how music can set the mood. Then we’ll figure out how we writers can use music […]
Writer Mark Wooden discusses four New Jack Techniques director Mario Van Peebles uses in his movie New Jack City. He’ll then show you how to use these techniques to become a writer with something to say above the generic story. A New […]
Cancel culture! That bane of all creatives! In this, my tenth episode (insert fanfare), I’ll explain how to offend, humor, and educate an audience so you can maintain the moral high ground above the cancel culture pitchforks! Tying into Black History Month, […]
Writer tips? I got ’em. I mean, that’s why you came back, right? To learn how a writer thinks? Well, let’s get to it!
Want to know how a writer thinks? Inside the writer’s mind is a scary place, but I’ll take you there! I’ll use the first chapter of a fanfiction set in the world of Conan the Barbarian to show why writers make the […]
Die Hard is an f-ing Christmas movie. It’s all right there in the title. But in case you weren’t already sure of that, writer Mark Wooden is here to make the case using three elements that all Christmas movies have — even […]
Back in 2018, I shot a short horror film. Flash forward and that film spent some time on Amazon Prime but got pulled because reasons. Fine. This is the digital age. Here it is.
Director Denis Villeneuve sat down with his “Blade Runner 2049” cinematographer Roger Deakins for the “Team Deakins” podcast. In part two of my coverage, the filmmakers discuss the challenges fo CG work, watching movies on a variety of screens, and I list […]
