Tag: Writing

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 6: What are we doing? Oh, crime.

Yep, crime tales get their own segment. The murder ballad is a classic format, and the broader category of the crime song is as well. These are essentially musical crime fiction, with the unquestionably guilty as their protagonists. Johnny Cash had a lot to say about sympathy for the murderer, but he doesn’t appear in … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 6: What are we doing? Oh, crime. →

Resource: How long does it take to bleed out from a severed limb?

. Someone over on r/WriterResearch asked how long a character could survive after a traumatic limb amputation. I had my copy of Blood On The Page handy, so I took a shot at answering. .  The chapter on traumatic amputation rates the injury at 5/5 lethality, meaning it will usually be fatal without treatment. . … Continue reading Resource: How long does it take to bleed out from a severed limb? →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time!

This is another large section, and rightly so, because it constitutes what I would consider the real tasty bit of the article. This is the thing that I think I like most about this genre, its great strength as a set of tools. These are the songs that exist to tell a short story, beginning … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time! →

So what am I actually working on?

Image via Wikimedia Commons A third post this week?! Astonishing. I guess I'm feeling inspired by reaching 90 straight days of adding to my big project. So, I want to actually explain what I'm working on. . Here's the pitch so far: . "Deep underground in the city of Dendograath, the social-climbing Telena family finds … Continue reading So what am I actually working on? →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did

We gave a little attention to the genre’s political origins back in the bluegrass section. Now we’re going to dive into that with more focus. The biggest subgenre you will find here is Fuck The Police, but it also dips into Be Better To Each Other and Fuck The Nazis (Woody Guthrie is back). The … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 3: Women Going Apeshitt (sic)

This segment was originally going to have a title related to utterly justified murder. However, right about then, Miranda Lambert stomped in, screaming “I am going to have a breakdown in public and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!” and I realized the rage ran a little deeper than mere murder. This is a return to … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 3: Women Going Apeshitt (sic) →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: Part 1

So, you hate country music. . No, okay, you know what? Valid. There is no getting around the fact that we are talking about a genre where a song called Honky Tonk Badonkadonk was deprived of #1 Hit status only because it had the bad luck to come out the same month as Jesus Take … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: Part 1 →