Disability Movie Review: Brain on Fire

Before-Watching ReflectionSo, I just decided to start watching Netflix's Brain on Fire, starring Chloe Grace Moretz. I decided a while ago that I was going to try and do movie reviews of movies about disability and try to get paid for it. But I didn't have the energy to even start that recently because I've...

Angels & Demons vs. The DaVinci Code

Warning: lots of spoilers So, I'm currently reading The Da Vinci Code, the second book in Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series and I wanted to write a quick thing on the similarities I am finding with regards to plot and characters. Story StructureBoth books start with Robert Langdon asleep. In Angels & Demons, Langdon is...

I’m Scared

I'm scared because I haven't written anything--and I mean anything--since April 2017. I have tried, but my brain can usually only get out only a few words before the chaos of brain fog starts. It all started when I moved down to Ames, Iowa summer 2016, the summer before starting my PhD in Rhetoric and...

Analyzing Writing VII – Graveyard Shift in Night Shift

Results This tells the story of a crew who are sent in to clean out the basement of a clothing mill during the graveyard shift (late at night).  Soon, they begin encountering rats of increasing sizes until they come upon a trapdoor that leads to the rat Queen. Moments vs. Entirety This is something that...

Analyzing Writing VI – Jerusalem’s Lot in Nightshift

Results Jerusalem's Lot is a prologue to Salem's Lot.  It tells the story of a man who discovers a ghost (demon?) town called Jerusalem's Lot.  Epistolary Form This story is told entirely in epistolary narrative in the form of letters to Mr. Boone and journal entries of the main character's servant.  It grabs my attention...

Analyzing Writing VIII – Night Surf in Night Shift

A group of kids come across a victim of the Captain Tripps or A6, in other words, the flu that kills you.  Prequel if any of you have read The Stand, you may recognize the name Captain Tripps. It is the plague that is loosed in The Stand. That makes this a prequel to the...

Analyzing Writing V – The Shining by Stephen King

Results One of the most recognizable titles that he has ever written.  Yet absolutely NOTHING like the movie save a family of three maintain a hotel in the winter and weird things start happening.  Character Switching King uses the character switching narrative structure for the second time in his career. The first in his previous book....

Analyzing Writing IV

TW: MENTION OF SCHOOL SHOOTING On the fourth Stephen King book now.  Whoo.  This will be looking at the third book that Stephen King published. RAGE by Stephen King Okay, so a quick history about this: Stephen King published Rage under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman.  Eventually, he let this book fall out of print because...

Analyzing Writing III

You may notice a pattern of all of the books that I am reviewing right now.  I am doing a Stephen King book marathon this summer where I try to figure out how he writes.  The patterns in each book that mark his own writing style.  I wanted to do it because I've heard so...

Analyzing Writing II

I don't know if I like the title of this series, but I'll deal with it for now.  I'm wondering about these things, let me know if any of them stick out to you. Reading like a Writer The Writer Reads The Reading Writer I'm kinda partial to The Reading Writer, but that might be...