ah! the atmosphere

Setting the Atmosphere

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. Writing is about more than scrawling words on a page. It's about…
September 12, 20232 Comments
Little Big Horn

Ghosts of Little Bighorn

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. Our previous high strangeness post drew some personal spooky accounts out of…
September 11, 20232 Comments
Tech Guide 2 APOD Cover 640

Tech Guide 2 Is Go

The new tech guide is here. Get yours now! The lushly illustrated Combat Frame Tech Guide II is now available on Amazon in digital and print! Like our first guide, the eBook makes a handy reference for the novels' white-knuckle mech action that's ready to go whenever and wherever you…
September 8, 2023
Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes Indeed

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. Once again, the Pop Cult-captured entertainment establishment is admitting what they vehemently…
September 7, 202315 Comments
The Matrix

The Matrix

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. In this blog's retrospective film review series, we've covered the movie that's…
September 6, 20234 Comments
Old Hotel Hallway

It Was at the Door

Special Offer: All writing is persuasion. But knowing what approach works and when can be a challenge. Let best selling ghostwriter Joshua Lisec show you the best persuasive techniques to supercharge your writing. Check out his offer now. The spooky season is around the corner, so that means it's about…
September 5, 20232 Comments
Robot Jox

Robot Jox

Robot Jox is an oft-overlooked specimen of 1980s dystopian sci fi. But unlike some of the other almost forgotten films of the era we've covered, it's not overlooked without reason. Note that I don't say "good reasons," but reasons nonetheless. Let's take a look at what I mean. Robot Jox…
September 1, 20233 Comments
Return to Bablylon

It Was in the Film

We've documented a fair share of hauntings over the years of this blog's existence. Once the reality of the ghost phenomenon has been established, the question becomes, if a movie theater can be haunted, why not a movie? Director Alex Monty Canawati may have answered that question with his 2013…
August 31, 202310 Comments
Death Angel

Combat Frame Data: Death Angel

XCD-208D Death Angel    Technical Data Model number: XCD-208D Code name: XSeed Angel King Dex Trapper Custom Nickname: Death Angel Classification: custom Two-series Sentinel use combat frame Manufacturer: PAX modification of ISBC design Operator: PAX First deployment: CY 99 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 21 meters Weight: 126 metric…
August 30, 2023
Princess of Mars protagonist John Carter

How to Write Protagonists

If your protagonist sucks, your story will suck. The engine that drives every story has three parts: a protagonist, something the protagonist wants, and an antagonist (human, environmental, psychological, etc.) who obstructs the protagonist's attainment of that goal. When you relate what the protagonist does to overcome the obstacles in his…
August 29, 20232 Comments