Clearly, I can’t get this show out of my head. And my motivation to write right now is that I won’t let myself watch the second season until I finish analyzing the first. But rest assured, once I schedule this blog to post, I’m diving right in.
Read moreStory Spotlight: You’re The Worst – Part II
In my last post, I started to dig into “You’re the Worst,” a half-hour comedy on FXX about two terrible people in a relationship with one another. In this post, I continue thinking out loud about the show
Read moreStory Spotlight: You’re The Worst – Part I
Last week, I discovered a new show and blew through the first season. (I love it when that happens.) The show is called “You’re the Worst,” and it’s on FXX. For whatever reason, I have been analyzing the hell out of it, and it is an incredibly well done show. Maybe that’s why I can’t stop analyzing it? Regardless, it’s an irreverent half hour comedy and I’ve been thinking about it like it’s the next “Breaking Bad.”
Read moreStory Spotlight – Locke & Key: Head Games
If anyone ever asks you if there’s more to comic books than super heroes, give them a copy of the first volume of Locke & Key, written by Joe Hill with art by Gabriel Rodriguez. Six volumes in all, Locke & Key is an excellent story, and one of my favorite in any medium. It’s a series I’ll likely come back to for more Story Spotlights in the future. Today, I’d like to look at a scene from the second volume of the series, “Head Games.”
Read moreStory Spotlight – The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Story Spotlight will be a recurring feature on Nick Writes where I dive into a story I love, hate, or just find something noteworthy in. It’s a nice break from talking about my own experiences writing, and an opportunity to look a little more closely at other people’s work.
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