you can call me boots.

“Film sequences inspired by comic books. The distillation of time. Breaking apart the machine. These are things that X-Men: First Class and Inception do pretty well. I’m no pop culture critic, and this is not a pop culture blog. What I’m interested in is what these techniques can tell us about the writing process – not only when writing out the meat of the piece, but of the way we structure it.”

Guys, I’m serious! Visuals can really, really help. At least, they do for me. This is from my essay “X-Men: First Class & Inception: What Films Lend to Writing,” up now at Specter Literary Magazine.