Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Right Up To Ceiling
Serial Jen is FINISHED.
End result: The final day for submission is the 3rd. It’s now the 1st. That leaves me with a couple of days for proofing. Anyone wanna’ read it? The maximum word count is 18,000. I came in at 17,894. Man, I’m reaaaaaaaaaaaaally [...]
Blogging Before Sunrise
I feel like a damn farmer or somethin’…
I think the girlfriend finally has her sleep cycle figured out. She operates on Martian Standard Time or something, because it seems that she prefers to be up for 20 hours and then go for an eight hour sleep cycle. This is fine, on [...]
The Bedtime Blog
Real quick, ’cause it’s nearly 10 am, which is past my bedtime.
I did NOTHING interesting or think anything interesting today. Yesterday I read a monumentally bad, bad BAD short story by someone who arbitrarily decided he wanted to be a writer and get a book published with no previous literary experience. [...]
The Trial, Lah…
For those of you unaware of my incredibly pretentious literary reference, The Trial was a novel by the master of paranoia, Franz Kafka, and “Lah” is the useless tag word that Singaporeans stick on the end of their sentences. Lah.
Mostly I titled this post this way because I currently feel like I [...]
Meow! Meowmeowmeowmeowmeow X 14
Not just a few minutes ago we were walking back home from a domestic kind of dinner, she carrying a ring light bulb, me carrying a four step ladder we had to pick up so we could replace the burnt out kitchen bulb with the new one.
Just before we turned the [...]
Game-u Show-oo! YOSH!
When I’m not having nightmares, I’m having bizarre afternoons.
Yesterday I helped out my friend Amelia with what’s called a “Promo”, short for promotion. This particular promo was kind of pseudo commercial meant for networks and advertisers for a game show called “Chain Reaction.” It’s a sort of a low-budget affair [...]
My First Nightmare In Years
The thing is, I normally don’t have nightmares. The vast majority of the time, I don’t even remember my dreams, and when I do, they’re of the largely prosaic, real world sort, where I do exactly what I would do in real life, with no variation from that, like the [...]
The Agony Of Rewrites
So today, among other things, I’m rewriting a story. Tightening it up, seems to be the standard term these days.
Some writers think this is a joyful activity. Others would rather throw themselves naked into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades. I think I fall somewhere in the [...]
Run Forest! Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
Inspired by a conversation I just had with the girlfriend over coffee:
I remember from the very first moment I heard those immortal words, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna’ get,” that it was just dead plain wrong.
The real saying should be, “Life is like [...]
My First Non-Girlfriend Link!
Okay, so it’s a close personal friend of mine, but still! I don’t sleep with her, that’s gotta’ count for somethin’, right?!?
Look, look, looky! Look what she said about me!
“about bloody time! “shoeless” wayne santos finally has a blog! thrill to the adventures of this bitter, cynical (yet still hopeful) [...]