After fooling around with blogspot for a while now, I've decided there is no easy way for me to organize my writing. So, I will just have to categorize my titles for quick reference. Notice the "Comics:" in the title... take a guess what that means. This post is all about... Comics! Here are the links:
Here is the link for my page, containing all my articles. But just in case that is a little overwhelming, (and just because I want to go a little more in depth) i will give you a link-by-link, walk through of my favorites.
Maximum Carnage: A Look Back was my first piece published on PopMatters. It was a feature that was on the web site's front page for a few days, and remained on the Comics page for close to a month before getting archived. One of the pieces I am most proud of. Non-comic people can easily understand this.
Slingers is one of my favorite comic book series of all time. Might not be as easily-accessible as the first article, but this one is shorter.
This Was Then: Godzilla - Age of Monsters was such a fun graphic novel to read. Godzilla will always hold a very special place in my heart, and this review does him justice.
This Was Then: Prodigal was another series I read for my blog while writing for PopMatters. I think this is my best review. If you only read one of these, please... this is the one to judge my writing by.
-Note- I mentioned my displeasure with the PopMatters editorial staff before. They butchered these articles grammatically. There are SO many times they make me sound repetitive. Like they wanted to restructure a sentence, but didn't delete the first part of it after they made their revision. So don't hold grammatical errors in these articles against me.
-Randy
Currently: At work, listening to Ludo
Monday, June 13, 2011
Why?
Why am I writing a blog?
Well, I like to write. I feel like I have good ideas and would love to be a writer some day. For a short time I had the privledge of writing comic book reviews for a website, PopMatters.com. I wrote for them for about six months. Between working 3rd shift (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) and getting really irritated at the communication skills of my editor, I decided to stop writing. Looking back, I never should have stopped... I contacted the website to see if I could continue my blog I had. (titled "This Was Then". It was a look back to the 90s and the comic books of the time as they impacted the comic industry, and how they impacted me.) They said "no", without much of a reason. I then submitted a piece for their music section, which desperately needed submissions. That got shot down as well. At first I was frustrated. I don't handle rejection well. Rejection motivates some people, but not me. I need encouragement to keep going. Luckily, I have an encouraging wife. I told her that one of the things that upset me the most about getting rejected was that I was so excited to write the article I submitted for the music section. She told me start writing a blog and post it anyways. So I will. And I will post other comic book reviews. And concert reviews. And my thoughts on the local sports scene. So, that is why I am writing this blog. Because of my passion for telling the world my thoughts and ideas. And also because my wife motivates me and encourages me to keep following my dreams. I want to be a writer. I think this is the next step.
-Randy
Currently: At work, listening to Broken Radio by Pistol Grip
Well, I like to write. I feel like I have good ideas and would love to be a writer some day. For a short time I had the privledge of writing comic book reviews for a website, PopMatters.com. I wrote for them for about six months. Between working 3rd shift (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) and getting really irritated at the communication skills of my editor, I decided to stop writing. Looking back, I never should have stopped... I contacted the website to see if I could continue my blog I had. (titled "This Was Then". It was a look back to the 90s and the comic books of the time as they impacted the comic industry, and how they impacted me.) They said "no", without much of a reason. I then submitted a piece for their music section, which desperately needed submissions. That got shot down as well. At first I was frustrated. I don't handle rejection well. Rejection motivates some people, but not me. I need encouragement to keep going. Luckily, I have an encouraging wife. I told her that one of the things that upset me the most about getting rejected was that I was so excited to write the article I submitted for the music section. She told me start writing a blog and post it anyways. So I will. And I will post other comic book reviews. And concert reviews. And my thoughts on the local sports scene. So, that is why I am writing this blog. Because of my passion for telling the world my thoughts and ideas. And also because my wife motivates me and encourages me to keep following my dreams. I want to be a writer. I think this is the next step.
-Randy
Currently: At work, listening to Broken Radio by Pistol Grip
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