by Andrew Einspruch | Dec 1, 2018 | Books
You know what sucks? Getting tossed into a deadly, purple fog. You know what sucks more? Having to go back in there to try to save your twin sister. I’m thrilled to let you know that my book The Star of Whatever, book two in the humorous fantasy series The...
by Andrew Einspruch | Dec 1, 2018 | Videos
The Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg perform as the band First Aid Kit. Enjoy their song “Silver Lining,” which I played over and over and over about a year...
by Andrew Einspruch | Nov 18, 2018 | Books
The Star of Whatever, the second book in my series The Western Lands and All That Really Matters launches, in a week so I’ll be sharing a couple of extra emails leading up to that. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to bring you the next part of Princess...
by Andrew Einspruch | Nov 17, 2018 | Videos
OK, OK, OK, this is a fun, interesting video from Vox on that most recognisable of words, OK, which dates from 1839. It’s not an abbreviation for a dockworker’s name (which is what I’d heard). It’s not from the Choctaw. But it does have an...
by Andrew Einspruch | Nov 4, 2018 | Technology
Those of you who’ve been with me a while know I love my tech (we’re all-in Apple), but the implications of tech also concern me. As such, allow me to point you to a fantastic bit of writing from Mat Honan at BuzzFeed: The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good...
by Andrew Einspruch | Nov 3, 2018 | Videos
You know that kind of scene where they do a one-take time-lapse kind of thing to show a character’s passage through time (there’s the famous walk through the seasons scene in Notting Hill). Here’s a split-screen look at one of them being filmed from...
by Andrew Einspruch | Sep 16, 2018 | Living
This week, I declared another media fast for myself. I mentioned last time that a media fast was part of what I did to get The Purple Haze written. Now I’m working on The Light Bearer (book three in the Western Lands and All That Really Matters series) and I...
by Andrew Einspruch | Sep 16, 2018 | Videos
There’s something stupendous about this short clip from Stephen Colbert, where he connects a rhyming pattern from Change the Rapper’s “Favourite Song” (featuring Childish Gambino) back to Gilbert and Sullivan, and on to Tolkien. Don’t...
by Andrew Einspruch | Sep 2, 2018 | Books, Writing
Let me tell you a story. Stick with me. I used to teach creative writing classes called Freeing Your Creativity. I taught a lot of them, especially, in the early- to mid-2000s. I’d talk about what makes a story work, a bit about story structure, and we’d...
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