It’s an interesting thing to be a writer. Its one of those jobs that everyone thinks they can just do. Everyone communicates through writing as it is. It’s easy enough to do it creatively then, right? It’s like that old joke about the writer and the brain surgeon. A writer and a brain surgeon are [...]

I know. I know. I should be blogging more. I should be blogging at least once a day, but I’ve already missed a couple. Between mandatory overtime at work and all of these after-work get togethers with friends and family, I’m not finding the time to hunker down and crank something out when I finally [...]

I have no idea how to become a scab writer, but almost all my hits are coming from Google searches for “become a scab writer,” I thought I’d create this one post to try and catch them all. Look, seriously, it’s probably a really bad idea to try and undermine the WGA like that. I [...]

Man, I’m beat. I’m not sure if it’s because I shocked my deltoids tonight or because the marketing and sales department burst out in a fit of sporadic fall cleaning at work today. And if you’re joining the party late, I’m in the marketing department. Somewhere, someone high up (probably even the highest) decided that [...]

Or maybe it’s more fixer-uppering? Came home around 7 p.m. tonight after a long day at work. I’ve been putting in time after hours, trying to get more stuff done. It’s an eerie feeling, really, to be the last employee in the building with the office lights shutting off all around you since the motion [...]

Now that the writers strike is in full force in the film and television industry, I can’t help but feel that this would be an excellent time to scab. I mean, hell, every writer in the industry has basically said, “You see this highly coveted job of mine that someone needs to do? Yeah, I’m [...]

This Saturday, I spent the whole day (if you consider from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. the whole day) at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Since it was my first time going, I made sure to bring along someone who could give me a competent artistic tour through all the beautiful works. I don’t [...]

You gotta start somewhere. As a professional writer, typically that means writing for free. If you’re writing for yourself, just keep a diary and be done with it. For the rest of you, understand that writing is a business. Like any business, if people are gonna sign checks for a writer, they want to get [...]

Typically, I’m a curmudgeon on Halloween and don’t give out candy. I’m that guy, lurking in the darkness to dissuade the kiddies from knocking on my door. This year, since I live in a nice area now, I’ve shed my loner ways and am actually quite neighborly. So, to stay in the spirit of things [...]

First, let’s get a few housekeeping things out of the way. Typically, I’d leave it up to my sidebar updates section to inform my readers about Web site changes, but since I’ve got a few readers that subscribe to my feed they’ll miss out on the wealth of entertainment to be had from other parts [...]

Alright, so I lied about getting another post out yesterday. I think I was a little too ambitious about the one-a-day posting idea. At least this early in the life of this blog. I’m way too busy promoting and building right now. In fact, this post isn’t going to be anything special, either. I was [...]

Alright, I’m taking a break from putting together other parts of the site to knock out a more complete post. So last time I left off on PC gamer elitism. While my stance hasn’t changed, there are a few undeniable drawbacks to gaming in this medium. Price is the biggest issue. If I want my [...]

Pressure, pressure, pressure. I told myself that I would get a blog post out once a day. It’s good for the ol’ writing skills and fun for search engines looking for new content. But here I am with 10–scratch that–9 minutes to midnight with nothing to show for it. What was the delay? A video [...]

As a copywriter, I spend the majority of my day staring at a monitor, typing stuff. Unfortunately, my job still hasn’t gotten me the ergonomic keyboard tray that I asked for like four months ago, but that’s another story. Anyway, ever since I took down my old sites, I’ve been working feverishly to get this [...]

Just a quick thought before I crash. You know, I never really saw myself in advertising. I’ve always figured that if I had to do it or if I just found myself in that profession that I’d be able to handle it, but it wasn’t anything that I “looked forward to.” Today, my view has [...]

  So I was at the movies today, watching 30 Days of Night (read my review, by the way) and I saw the trailer for the next Japanese horror import, One Missed Call. This time around, we’re supposed to afraid of our cell phones. The way it works, from what I can glean from the [...]

Star Wars fans can rejoice! Looks like George Lucas is bringing the Star Wars universe to television. Don’t expect to see any major characters from the films, however, since the plot is planned to focus on minor characters. Cameos by major characters has not been ruled out though. Supposedly, the show will be similar to [...]

Just a short blip today. I’ve only recently been following the goings on between the Writers Guild of America, West and the Producers Alliance. Seems like they’ve been in negotiations over the new agreement since July and haven’t made any headway. I do most of my industry reading during my downtime at work, which isn’t [...]

Well, here we are again, folks! René Garcia has another brand-spanking-new Web site! Yeah, I know. You’re all probably tired of following me from site to site, so luckily, this will more than likely be my final “professional” site. My last site, www.writinginthedark.net, was a little off putting, I found. I’d tell people my domain [...]