by jasonbatt | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Writing, writing craft
My son is a Lego addict. At home, he has boxes and boxes of the tiny, plastic blocks. At school, in his aftercare program, he only gets a box of about one hundred Legos. Every evening when I pick him up he smiles and holds up his day’s creation with those one hundred...
by jasonbatt | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog
My flash fiction story “Run Like You’re on Fire” is out today on Bewildering Stories. Go check it out: BewilderingStories.com. Here’s a quick excerpt: Wake up. Keep quiet even though you want to scream. Don’t open your mouth. Don’t alert anyone...
by jasonbatt | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog, Writing
In the world of robotics, particularly android development, and computer-generated simulations, there exists a strangeness called the “uncanny valley”. The gap of the “uncanny valley” is created between when human features and behaviors appear very near to what a real...
by jasonbatt | May 31, 2014 | Blog, Writing
Let’s start with the end. Francine Prose, pulling us back along with her class, tells us, “Forget observation, consciousness, clear-sightedness . . . Admit that you understand nothing of life, nothing of what you see. Then go out and look at the world.” Writing is a...
by jasonbatt | May 28, 2014 | Blog, Writing
There’s a movement, maybe just a few but loud voices, propelled by the advent of easy self-publishing, that argue that writing should be fast and easy if you’re good. One of these proponents has argued that his mediocre writing isn’t so mediocre that it won’t sell:...