Tales From A Roving Mind

This week I want to talk about giving characters distinct voices. It’s a very difficult but important part of writing. Making your characters read like different, unique individuals should be everyone’s goal.  I’ve been trying to achieve this, but… well just click below to see if I’ve had any success.

It’s been a while since the last Scooby movie, hasn’t it? Yeah. Sorry about that. No excuses. But I’m back with the next in the series. One that I really liked. No reason to wait any longer let’s jump to it.

I wasn't sure what to do this week. It was time for an edition of "Awful Fat Guy of the Week" but I didn't have any one in mind. Then I saw something, two things actually, at Target and my mind was made up. This isn't a post about one person, it's a post about a type of person. This week I'll be looking at two types of Fat Guys (people) that don't how to respect the Fat.

Time for another installment of "Tales From a Roving Mind". This week I have no idea what I'm going to talk about. What you find after the jump, is going to be as much of a surprise to me as it will be to you. Let's see what kind of shit I pull out of my ass together. Meet you after the break.

Here’s something only fat kids will understand. Every kid, who lives where McDonalds are available, dreams about a Happy Meal. Food, that’s bad for you, and a toy? What’s not to love? But as a fat kid you don’t really want a Happy Meal. You want the toy and an adult portion of food. I would get a 6 piece nuggets and a large fries, in a Happy Meal bag with the toy.  This didn’t happen all that often, McDonalds is actually pretty expensive.  I only remember a few times. One of them, or the toy at least, stands out in my memory. Today I’m going to take a look at those fun bits of plastic.

Broken promises. Today I want to talk about broken promises. As an amateur writer, one who is not beholden to anything other than your own will, you find yourself making and breaking promises to yourself. Or at least I do. That’s what today’s edition of “Tales From a Roving Mind” is about. Let’s get to it.

The last edition of the ‘Pull List’ pulled some good numbers for me. I guess Godzilla is a big draw. Sadly no giant lizards this week. Instead we have a few follow up issues to series I started reading thanks to this feature. So let's take a look at dogs in prison, burn victims, and moon shiners facing supernatural threats. To the shelves!

After a long, very long, time ‘Awesome Fat Guy of the Week’ is back. This week I’m pulling from the world of comedy, a veritable bastion of Fat Guys, and talking about Ron Funches. A soft spoken funnyman with an infectious smile.

This week on “Tales from a Roving Mind” I’ll be talking about fear, and giving a general progress report.